Tungsten isotopes in ferroan anorthosites: Implications for the age of the Moon and lifetime of its magma ocean

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 245-249

  Touboul, Mathieu ^a   Kleine, Thorsten ^a   Bourdon, Bernard ^a   Palme, Herbert ^b   Wieler, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretion; Cosmochemistry; Moon; Planetary formation; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649084133     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.11.018     Document Type: Article

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