Francis Nimmo coauthored models connecting the Moon's thermal structure with its tidal and seismic energy dissipation. Melt-free models matched several amplitudes but predicted the wrong sign for the measured tidal frequency dependence.[ref]
Dissipation at tidal and seismic frequencies in a melt-free Moon by Francis Nimmo and others. Abstract: successful constraints and remaining frequency-dependence discrepancy
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