Volcanic degassing of argon and helium and the history of crustal production on Venus

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 103, Issue E2, 1998, Pages 3655-3677

  Namiki, Noriyuki ^a   Solomon, Sean C ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL PRODUCTION; DEGASSING; VOLCANISM;

VENUS;

EID: 0004853669     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97JE03032     Document Type: Article

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