Investigating the Laplace plane transition theory for lunar chronology with a thermal-orbital coupled model

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Fig. 1

Model for the variation in lunar rigidity μ and tidal dissipation factor k_2m-to-Q_m ratio as a function of melt fraction ϕ, using Eqs. (2) and (3). The olive and green horizontal shaded regions denote the measured k_2m-to-Q_m ratio values of the Moon (Williams et al. 2014) and Io (Lainey et al. 2009), respectively.

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