Lunar-tsunamis -Journals

Lunar-tsunamis -Journals

The moon’s orbit is elliptical, so it’s not unusual for the moon to come closer or go farther from the earth.The tsunami is caused by the sea floor moving. The tidal effect from the moon won’t affect a tsunami either. There's no connection. Liquidity was attributed to transient melting of an initially hot, plastic layer beneath a rubble crust, owing to pressure relief behind the shock fronts from energetic meteoroid impacts, and freezing to subsequent solidification, upon restoration of isostatic pressure. This interpretation was largely ignored; most geophysicists thought the moon too rigid to sustain gravity waves. Here I show that current acceptance of an initially molten proto-moon with a thin crust credibly supports the “tsunami-like” generation of the lunar maria and provides new insight to the moon’s thermal history


Last Updated on: Nov 27, 2024

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