Accretion of extraterrestrial matter during the last 80 million years and its effect on the marine osmium isotope record

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 3187-3196

  Peucker Ehrenbrink, B ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAINOZOIC; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIAL; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; MARINE RECORD; OSMIUM; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; OSMIUM ISOTOPES; PELAGIC SEDIMENT; PELAGIC SEDIMENTS; SEAWATER;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0030435262     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(96)00161-5     Document Type: Article

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