The age of the carbonates in martian meteorite ALH84001

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5437, 1999, Pages 90-94

  Borg, Lars E ^a,d   Connelly, James N ^b   Nyquist, Larry E ^a   Shih, Chi Y ^c   Wiesmann, Henry ^e   Reese, Young ^c  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Lockheed Engineering and Science   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CARBONIC ACID; LEAD; RUBIDIUM; STRONTIUM;

AGE DETERMINATION; CARBONATE; MARTIAN METEORITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GEOLOGY; MINERALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALCIUM; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; CARBONATES; IRON; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MARS; METEOROIDS; MINERALS; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES;

EID: 0033213911     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5437.90     Document Type: Article

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