Nitrogen and argon release profiles in Luna 16 and Luna 24 regolith sample-s: The effects of regolith reworking

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-48

  Assonov, S S ^a,b   Franchi, I A ^b   Pillinger, C T ^b   Semenova, A S ^a   Shukolyukov, Yu A ^a   Verchovsky, A B ^b   Iassevitch, A N ^a  

^a VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; LUNAR SOIL; MOON; NITROGEN; REGOLITH; REWORKING;

EID: 0036167020     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00794.x     Document Type: Article

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