Re-examination of the lunar magma ocean cumulate overturn hypothesis: melting or mixing is required

By L. Tanton, J. Orman, B. Hager, T. Grove. 2002

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Thermal and Magmatic Evolution of the Moon (2006, background): “The calculations presented in Elkins-Tanton et al. (2002) suggest that, with a non-linear stress-dependent rheology appropriate for a pyroxene-dominated cumulate, the late-forming high-Ti cumulates may creep at rates too low to allow descent via Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities on a time scale appropri”
The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology (2011, background): “…will be at depth, with the possible exception of some cold, shallow titanium-bearing materials that did not participate in overturn and remain just under the lunar lid (Elkins-Tanton et al., 2002) and traces that are left behind as the sinking diapirs pass through shallower material.”