Iron isotope differences between Earth, Moon, Mars and Vesta as possible records of contrasted accretion mechanisms

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 253-266

  Poitrasson, Franck ^a,b   Halliday, Alexander N ^a   Lee, Der Chuen ^a,c   Levasseur, Sylvain ^a   Teutsch, Nadya ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diogenites; Earth and Moon formation; Eucrites; Iron isotopes; Mars; Planetology; SNC meteorites; Vesta

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ASTEROID; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOON; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SOLAR SYSTEM; VENUS;

EID: 3142615283     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.04.032     Document Type: Article

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