Noble gases and cosmogenic radionuclides in the Gold Basin L4 chondrite shower: Thermal history, exposure history, and pre-atmospheric size

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 157-173

  Welten, K C ^a   Caffee, M W ^b   Leya, I ^c   Masarik, J ^d   Nishiizumi, K ^a   Wieler, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDRITE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; NOBLE GAS; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

ARIZONA; MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142198343     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb01052.x     Document Type: Article

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