L-chondrite asteroid breakup tied to Ordovician meteorite shower by multiple isochron 40Ar-39Ar dating

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 113-130

  Korochantseva, Ekaterina V ^a,b   Trielof, Mario ^a   Lorenz, Cyrill A ^b   Buykin, Alexey I ^a,b   Ivanova, Marina A ^b   Schwarz, Winfried H ^a   Hopp, Jens ^a   Jessberger, Elmar K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; ASTEROID; CHONDRITE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; ORDOVICIAN; RADIOMETRIC METHOD;

EID: 33846420983     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00221.x     Document Type: Article

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