The granulitic impactite suite: Impact melts and metamorphic breccias of the early lunar crust

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 185-195

  Cushing, Janet A ^a,c   Taylor, G Jeffrey ^a   Norman, Marc D ^a,b,d   Keil, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Naval Air Station   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRANULITE; IMPACTITE; LUNAR CRUST; MOON;

EID: 0033104424     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.1999.tb01745.x     Document Type: Article

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