The Re-Os isotope system in cosmochemistry and high-temperature geochemistry

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue , 1998, Pages 423-500

  Shirey, Steven B ^a   Walker, Richard J ^b,c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPE SYSTEM; OSMIUM; RHENIUM;

EID: 0031689991     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.26.1.423     Document Type: Article

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