Regolith history of lunar meteorites

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 315-327

  Lorenzetti, S ^a,b   Busemann, H ^a,c   Eugster, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR METEORITE; REGOLITH;

EID: 18844416334     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2005.tb00383.x     Document Type: Article

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