Noble gases in iddingsite from the Lafayette meteorite: Evidence for liquid water on Mars in the last few hundred million years

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-115

  Swindle, T D ^a   Treiman, A H ^b   Lindstrom, D J ^c   Burkland, M K ^a   Cohen, B A ^a   Grier, J A ^a   Li, B ^a   Olson, E K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHONDRITE; MARTIAN METEORITE; NOBLE GAS;

EID: 0034124007     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2000.tb01978.x     Document Type: Article

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