Isotopic evidence for a terminal lunar cataclysm

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1974, Pages 1-21

  Tera, Fouad ^a   Papanastassiou, D A ^a   Wasserburg, G J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0001834384     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(74)90059-4     Document Type: Article

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