Toward understanding early Earth evolution: Prescription for approach from terrestrial noble gas and light element records in lunar soils

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 17654-17658

  Ozima, Minoru ^a   Yin, Qing Zhu ^b   Podosek, Frank A ^c   Miura, Yayoi N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth wind; Earth Moon dynamics; Geomagnetic field; Oxygen atmosphere; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; INERT GAS; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; LAND BIOME; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 56649108159     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806596105     Document Type: Article

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