The global accretion rate of extraterrestrial materials in the last glacial period estimated from the abundance of micrometeorites in Antarctic glacier ice

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-79

  Yada, Toru ^a,b,c   Nakamura, Tomoki ^a   Takaoka, Nobuo ^a   Noguchi, Takaaki ^d   Terada, Kentaro ^e   Yano, Hajime ^f   Nakazawa, Takakiyo ^g   Kojima, Hideyasu ^h  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^g TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretion rate; Antarctica; Interplanetary dust particle; Last glacial periods; Micrometeorite; Noble gas

Indexed keywords

METEORITE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; WORLD; YAMATO MOUNTAINS;

EID: 20644437112     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352491     Document Type: Article

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