Petrogenesis of lunar highlands meteorites: Dhofar 025, Dhofar 081, Dar al Gani 262, and Dar al Gani 400

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 503-529

  Cahill, J T ^a,b   Floss, C ^c   Anand, M ^a   Taylor, L A ^a   Nazarov, M A ^d   Cohen, B A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR METEORITE; METEORITE; MOON; PETROGENESIS;

EID: 2342598959     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00916.x     Document Type: Article

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