Widespread magma oceans on asteroidal bodies in the early Solar System

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7044, 2005, Pages 916-918

  Greenwood, Richard C ^a   Franchi, Ian A ^a   Jambon, Albert ^b   Buchanan, Paul C ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES; MOLTEN MATERIALS; OXYGEN; ROCKS;

ANOMALOUS PLANETARY FEATURES; ASTEROIDS; GLOBAL-SCALE MELTING; MAGMA OCEANS;

PLANETS;

MAGMA; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MEASUREMENT; MELTING POINT; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 21244501772     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03612     Document Type: Article

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