Targeting the impactors: Siderophile element signatures of lunar impact melts from Serenitatis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 217-228

  Norman, Marc D ^a   Bennett, Vickie C ^a   Ryder, Graham ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apollo 17; Impact craters; Impacts; Lunar breccia; Lunar crust; Melts; Platinum group; Siderophile elements

Indexed keywords

CRATER; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LUNAR CRUST; MOON; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

EID: 0037106968     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00780-X     Document Type: Article

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