Shocked meteorites: Argon-40-argon-39 evidence for multiple impacts

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 647-670

  Kunz, Joachim ^a,b   Falter, Martina ^a   Jessberger, Elmar K ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACTS; SHOCKED METEORITES;

EID: 0031400834     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1997.tb01550.x     Document Type: Article

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