High precision, high accuracy measurement of oxygen isotopes in a large lunar zircon by SIMS

Chemical Geology

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 32-42

  Whitehouse, Martin J ^a   Nemchin, Alexander A ^b  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ion microprobe; Moon; Oxygen isotopes; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ION MICROPROBE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECISION; ZIRCON;

EID: 62449200362     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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