Oxygen-isotope evidence from ancient zircons for liquid water at the Earth's surface 4,300 Myr ago

Nature

Volumn 409, Issue 6817, 2001, Pages 178-181

  Mojzsis, Stephen J ^a,b   Harrison, T Mark ^a   Pidgeon, Robert T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; WATER; ZIRCONIUM;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; EARLY EARTH; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROSPHERE; PRECAMBRIAN; ZIRCON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEDIMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0035843177     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35051557     Document Type: Article

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