Magmatic processes that produced lunar fire fountains

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Elkins Tanton, Linda T ^a   Chatterjee, Nilanjan ^b   Grove, Timothy L ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; GLASS; SULFUR; VACUUM;

GREEN GLASSES;

GEOPHYSICS;

DEGASSING; LUNAR MANTLE; MAGMATISM; MOON;

EID: 0042283539     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl017082     Document Type: Article

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