Re-evaluating 142Nd/144Nd in lunar mare basalts with implications for the early evolution and bulk Sm/Nd of the Moon

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6421-6445

  Brandon, Alan D ^a   Lapen, Thomas J ^b   Debaille, Vinciane ^c   Beard, Brian L ^d   Rankenburg, Kai ^e   Neal, Clive ^f  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDRITE; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MANTLE SOURCE; MARE BASALT; MOON; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PLANETESIMAL; SAMARIUM;

EID: 69949133065     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.07.015     Document Type: Article

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