The Galactic Habitable Zone: Galactic Chemical Evolution

Icarus

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 185-200

  Gonzalez, Guillermo ^a   Brownlee, Donald ^a   Ward, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmochemistry; Extrasolar planets; Planetary formation; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001531572     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6617     Document Type: Article

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