Melting temperatures of the Allende meteorite: Implications for a Hadean magma ocean

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 100, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 41-47

  Agee, Carl B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ALLENDE METEORITE; HADEAN; MAGMA OCEAN; MELTING TEMPERATURE; PLANETARY FORMATION;

EID: 0030785073     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03230-X     Document Type: Article

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