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Lead isotope data from young mantle derived volcanics suggest that the mantle is a two-stage system. The second stage was formed at the time of the global Anorthosite Event, and both events may have been caused by the capture of the Moon by the Earth.
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ULRYCH, T. Lead Isotopes, Lunar Capture and Mantle Evolution. Nature 224, 766–768 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224766a0
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