Sr and Nd analyses of upper Eocene spherules and their implications for target rocks

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 705-714

  Liu, Shaobin ^a,d   Papanastassiou, D A ^b,c   Ngo, H H ^c   Glass, B P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Mail Stop 169 237   (United States)

^d CATERPILLAR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRATER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEODYMIUM; STRONTIUM; TEKTITE;

EID: 33744461285     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00986.x     Document Type: Article

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