Oldest rocks, earliest life, heaviest impacts, and the Hadean-Archaean transition

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 819-824

  Moorbath, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 16844380550     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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