The crystalline lunar spherules: Their formation and implications for the origin of meteoritic chondrules

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-29

  Symes, Steven J K ^a,b   Sears, Derek W G ^a   Akridge, D Glen ^a   Huang, Shaoxiong ^a,c   Benoit, Paul H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR SPHERULE; METEORITIC CHONDRULE;

EID: 0031981291     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1998.tb01604.x     Document Type: Article

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