Earliest high-Ti volcanism on the moon: 40Ar-39Ar, Sm-Nd, and Rb-Sr isotopic studies of group D basalts from the Apollo 11 landing site

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 328-334

  Snyder, Regory A ^a   Hall, Chris M ^b   Lee, Der Chuen ^b   Taylor, Lawrence A ^a   Halliday, Alex N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLLO 11; BASALT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LINEAR ROCK; PETROGENESIS; VOLCANISM;

MOON;

EID: 0029750569     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1996.tb02069.x     Document Type: Article

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