Coupled 142Nd-143Nd evidence for a protracted magma ocean in Mars

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7169, 2007, Pages 525-528

  Debaille, V ^a   Brandon, A D ^b   Yin, Q Z ^c   Jacobsen, B ^c  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM 142; NEODYMIUM 143; SAMARIUM; SAMARIUM 146; SILICATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGMA; MARS; METEORITE; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; PLATE TECTONICS; SILICATE; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

EID: 36549037615     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06317     Document Type: Article

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