Cryptomare magmatism 4.35 Gyr ago recorded in lunar meteorite Kalahari 009

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7171, 2007, Pages 849-852

  Terada, Kentaro ^a   Anand, Mahesh ^b,c   Sokol, Anna K ^d   Bischoff, Addi ^d   Sano, Yuji ^e  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THORIUM; TITANIUM;

CLAST; ION MICROPROBE; LUNAR METEORITE; MAGMATISM; MARE BASALT; MOON; PHOSPHATE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; THORIUM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MICROANALYSIS; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; VOLCANO;

EID: 36849063124     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06356     Document Type: Article

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