Evidence for 182Hf in the early Solar System and constraints on the timescale of terrestrial accretion and core formation

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1131-1153

  Harper, Charles L ^a   Jacobsen, Stein B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE FORMATION; EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM; HAFNIUM-182; TERRESTRIAL ACCRETION; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 0029753796     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(96)00027-0     Document Type: Article

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