Lunar geochemistry as told by lunar meteorites

Chemie der Erde

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 297-346

  Korotev, Randy L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorthosite; Antarctica; Basalt; Crater; Impact; Impact melt breccia; KREEP; Lunar rock; Meteorites; Moon

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; LUNAR METEORITE;

EID: 26944493711     PISSN: 00092819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemer.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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