40Ar/39Ar dating of Apollo 12 impact spherules

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Levine, Jonathan ^a,b   Becker, Timothy A ^c   Muller, Richard A ^a,d   Renne, Paul R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LABORATORIO TANDAR   (Argentina)

^c BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; METEOR IMPACTS; MOON; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; SOLAR SYSTEM; STRATIGRAPHY;

IMPACT SPHERULES; ISOCHRON TECHNIQUE; METEORIOD BOMBARDMENT; SPHERULE AGE MEASUREMENTS;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; EJECTA; MOON; REGOLITH; SPHERULE;

EID: 25844492408     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022874     Document Type: Article

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