Biomolecule formation by oceanic impacts on early Earth

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-66

  Furukawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Sekine, Toshimori ^b   Oba, Masahiro ^a   Kakegawa, Takeshi ^a   Nakazawa, Hiromoto ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 67649233025     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo383     Document Type: Article

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