Impact frustration of the origin of life

Nature

Volumn 331, Issue 6157, 1988, Pages 612-614

  Maher, Kevin A ^a   Stevenson, David J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOGENESIS; HEAT; MATHEMATICS; MOON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOGENESIS; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; HEAT; MATHEMATICS; METEOROIDS; MINOR PLANETS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOON; SEAWATER;

ARCHEAN; HADEAN; PROTO ORGANISMS; SELF REPLICATING;

EID: 0023823426     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/331612a0     Document Type: Article

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