Uranium-lead ages for lunar zircons: Evidence for a prolonged period of granophyre formation from 4.32 to 3.88 Ga

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 370-387

  Meyer, Charles ^a   Williams, Ian S ^b   Compston, William ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANOPHYRE; LUNAR ROCK; URANIUM/LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

MOON;

EID: 0029751830     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1996.tb02075.x     Document Type: Article

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