40Ar-39Ar ages of H-chondrite impact melt breccias

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 747-762

  Swindle, Timothy D ^a,b   Isachsen, Clark E ^b   Weirich, John R ^a   Kring, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 69649106332     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb00766.x     Document Type: Article

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