A highly depleted moon or a non-magma ocean origin for the lunar crust?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 505-516

  Boyet, Maud ^a,b   Carlson, Richard W ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

142Nd; lunar crust; magma ocean; Moon; short lived chronometers

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL ROCKS; LUNAR CRUST; POST-MAGMA OCEAN REMELTING;

BASALT; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; ROCK MECHANICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ISOTOPIC RATIO; LUNAR CRUST; MARE BASALT; MOON; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE;

EID: 35148827769     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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