Potassium isotopic composition of Australasian tektites

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1509-1516

  Humayun, Munir ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; POTASSIUM; TEKTITE;

AUSTRALASIA;

EID: 4844220764     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00125.x     Document Type: Article

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