Water in tektites and impact glasses by fourier-transformed infrared spectrometry

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 211-216

  Beran, Anton ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; IMPACT GLASS; TEKTITE; WATER;

EID: 0030754152     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01260.x     Document Type: Article

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