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Fig. 8 | Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Fig. 8

From: Iron snow, crystal floats, and inner-core growth: modes of core solidification and implications for dynamos in terrestrial planets and moons

Fig. 8

Paleomagnetic data of the Moon. Summary of lunar paleomagnetic data. Black points represent Apollo-era measurements (Fuller and Cisowski 1987; Wieczorek et al. 2006) and red points indicate modern, more reliable data produced using the isothermal remnant magnetization (IRM) and Thellier–Thellier methods (Weiss and Tikoo 2014). Arrows indicate data points that only provide an upper limit to the field strength and/or age. The two horizontal dashed lines represent the calculated maximum surface field obtained from the power scaling law (Eq. 9) for both precession dynamo (Dwyer et al. 2011) and thermal and/or chemical dynamo (Evans et al. 2014; Laneuville et al. 2014). Figure adapted from Scheinberg et al. (2015)

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