Early differentiation of the Earth and the Moon

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1883, 2008, Pages 4105-4128

  Bourdon, Bernard ^a   Touboul, Mathieu ^a   Caro, Guillaume ^b   Kleine, Thorsten ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

142Nd and 182W; Differentiation; Earth; Giant impact; Moon

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FORMING; LEAD; NEODYMIUM; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

142ND AND 182W; BALANCE CALCULATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION; EARLY DIFFERENTIATIONS; EARTH; EARTH'S MANTLES; GIANT IMPACT; MAGMA MIXING; MAGMA OCEANS; MARTIAN METEORITES;

MOON;

ASTRONOMY; MOON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOON;

EID: 54049144750     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0125     Document Type: Article

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