ASSESSMENT OF TEMPERATURE STRESSES IN THE LITHOSPHERE OF THE EARLY MOON

S. А. Voropaev; Воропаев С. А.; А. P. Krivenkо; Кривенко А. П.

doi:10.31857/S2686740022060153

ASSESSMENT OF TEMPERATURE STRESSES IN THE LITHOSPHERE OF THE EARLY MOON

Authors: Voropaev S.А.¹, Krivenkо А.P.¹
Affiliations:
1. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences
Issue: Vol 508, No 1 (2023)
Pages: 53-58
Section: ТЕХНИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ
URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-7400/article/view/135919
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S2686740022060153
EDN: https://elibrary.ru/UOBXRU
ID: 135919

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Abstract

In the early stages of the Moon’s formation, its growing lithosphere experienced complex time-varying temperature and gravitational stresses. Despite the subsequent intense impact transformation of the surface, during the gravimetric study of the GRAIL space mission, the presence of ancient deep intrusions was detected. The analysis of linear gravitational anomalies shows the expansion of the outer rigid layer of the planet at a certain early stage of the Moon’s evolution due to the excess of temperature stresses over gravitational compression. Obtaining the dependence of the time interval of the lithosphere expansion on a number of dimensionless thermal conductivity parameters will make it possible to refine existing models of the thermal and geochemical evolution of the early Moon.

Keywords

temperature stresses, deformations, thermal expansion, gravity, radioactive heating, Moon

About the authors

S. А. Voropaev

Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: voropaev@geokhi.ru
Russia, Moscow

А. P. Krivenkо

Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: krivenko@geokhi.ru
Russia, Moscow

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