Stratigraphy and Isotope Ages of Lunar Geologic Units: Chronological Standard for the Inner Solar System

By D. Stöffler, G. Ryder. 2001

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Dynamical erosion of the asteroid belt and implications for large impacts in the inner Solar System (2009, background): “ciated with the LHB are at least 10–15 times higher than on younger terrains (Stöffler and Ryder, 2001), and likely even more if the surfaces reached equilibrium cratering.”
Nonuniform cratering of the Moon and a revised crater chronology of the inner Solar System (2011, background): “…age and number of lunar craters, based on the ra-6 diometric dating of existing lunar rock samples, is found to be approximately7 linear from the present to about 3 Ga ago, and approximately exponential8 beyond that time (Neukum et al., 2001a; Stöffler and Ryder, 2001, and refer-9 ences therein).”
The timeline of the lunar bombardment: Revisited (2018, background): “Among the promient works that advocated the cataclysmic scenario are Ryder 1990, 2002) , Cohen et al. (2000) , Stöffler and Ryder (2001) and archi et al. (2012) .”
Global mapping of lunar crustal magnetic fields by Lunar Prospector (2008, background): “c Age estimates are from Stoffler and Ryder (2001) .”
Size-frequency distributions of fragments from SPH/N-body simulations of asteroid impacts: Comparison with observed asteroid families (2007, background): “…2005; Morbidelli et al., 2005; Gomes et al., 2005) indicates the dynamical structure of the Solar System changed during the so-called Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), a time period ∼3.8 Gyr ago when many of the largest basins on the Moon were formed (e.g., Tera et al., 1974; Stöffler and Ryder, 2001).”
The current martian cratering rate (2010, background): “The return of dateable samples from the Moon (summary in Wilhelms et al. (1987)) led to the assignment of absolute ages to lunar crater counts (e.g. Baldwin, 1985; Neukum and Ivanov, 1994; Stöffler and Ryder, 2001).”
Mercury’s Weather-Beaten Surface: Understanding Mercury in the Context of Lunar and Asteroidal Space Weathering Studies (2014, methodology): “The period of lunar volcanism has been constrained by crystallization ages of basalts returned by Apollo missions, which range from 3.8 to 3.15 Ga (Stöffler and Ryder 2001).”
Cratering Records in the Inner Solar System in Relation to the Lunar Reference System (2001, methodology): “The dating of lunar rocks in parallel with the crater counts reveals the general character of the bombardment flux decay (Stöffler and Ryder, 2001).”
Cratering History and Lunar Chronology (2006, background): “In this case the condition for a fresh surface is satisfied by the fact that most lunar mare basalt samples have a narrow range of ages around 3.2 to 3.5 Ga (Stöffler and Ryder 2001), which restricts the lunar maria to an age range within a factor of 1.1.”
What are the real constraints on the existence and magnitude of the late heavy bombardment (2007, methodology): “Dates for lunar impact basins [Wilhelms (1987), updated by Stöffler and Ryder (2001); we adopt their * Corresponding author.”
A sawtooth-like timeline for the first billion years of lunar bombardment (2012, methodology): “This exponential evolution was then extrapolated backwards in time by NI94, to estimate the impact flux during the oldest lunar epochs.1 A different view is summarized by Ryder (1990), Stöffler and Ryder (2001), and Ryder (2002).”
The early martian evolution—Constraints from basin formation ages (2008, background): “…correlation between radiometric ages of lunar samples and crater frequencies for this age range, and thus the cratering-chronology models, is still strongly debated (e.g. Tera et al., 1973; Ryder, 1990; Stöffler and Ryder, 2001; Hartmann and Neukum, 2001; Gomes et al., 2005; Chapman et al., 2007).”