Fig. 4: Spatial correlations of lower mantle melting induced by cumulate mantle overturn.
From: Rapid transition from primary to secondary crust building on the Moon explained by mantle overturn
Exposure proportion vs. average distance to farthest neighbor. The observed exposure and distance constraints of Mg-suite detections are plotted as a horizontal dashed line and blue-shaded region, respectively. Data determined from our synthetic crater modeling including 2σ standard deviation following 1000 iterations. Symbols are the same as Fig. 2, but now filled with gray scale representing each melt detection threshold considered (MDT = 2–7%). All Runs 1–10, and apart from Run 11, are capable of successfully co-satisfying the exposure and distance constraints when considering the range of MDT explored here.
