A 4.43 Ga Transition from Mega-impact to Habitability Deduced from Microstructural Geochronology of Martian Zircon and Baddeleyite

Desmond Moser1, David A Reinhard2, David Philip Larson2, Francis McCubbin3, James Darling4, Lee Frances White4, Gabriel Arcuri5, Anthony J Irving6, Kimberly Tait7 and Ivan Barker5, (1)University of Western Ontario, Department of Earth Sciences, London, ON, Canada, (2)Cameca Instruments Inc., Madison, WI, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, (5)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (6)University of Washington, Earth & Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)Royal Ontario Museum, Centre for Applied Planetary Mineralogy, Toronto, ON, Canada