The heptahydrate of sodium sulfate: Does it have a role in terrestrial and planetary geochemistry?

Icarus

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 277-279

  Hall, Christopher ^a   Hamilton, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ices; Jupiter; Mars; Mineralogy; satellites; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949120010     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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