Xenon isotope systematics, giant impacts, and mantle degassing on the early Earth

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 250, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 470-485

  Pepin, Robert O ^a   Porcelli, Don ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atmosphere; degassing; giant impacts; mantle; moon; radionuclide daughters; xenon

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATION; MANTLE DEGASSING; XENON ISOTOPE;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOGENIC GASES; XENON;

EARTH SCIENCES;

DEGASSING; EARLY EARTH; GAS WELL; IMPACT; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; XENON;

EID: 33749441648     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.08.014     Document Type: Article

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