The global distribution of pure anorthosite on the Moon

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7261, 2009, Pages 236-240

  Ohtake, Makiko ^a   Matsunaga, Tsuneo ^b   Haruyama, Junichi ^a   Yokota, Yasuhiro ^a   Morota, Tomokatsu ^a   Honda, Chikatoshi ^c   Ogawa, Yoshiko ^c   Torii, Masaya ^d   Miyamoto, Hideaki ^e   Arai, Tomoko ^f   Hirata, Naru ^c   Iwasaki, Akira ^g   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^h   Hiroi, Takahiro ⁱ   Sugihara, Takamitsu ^j   Takeda, Hiroshi ^f   Otake, Hisashi ^k   Pieters, Carle M ⁱ   Saiki, Kazuto ^l   Kitazato, Kohei ^c   Abe, Masanao ^a   Asada, Noriaki ^c   Demura, Hirohide ^c   Yamaguchi, Yasushi ^m   Sasaki, Sho ⁿ   Kodama, Shinsuke ^h   Terazono, Junya ^c   Shirao, Motomaro ^o   Yamaji, Atsushi ^p   Minami, Shigeyuki ^q   Akiyama, Hiroaki ^r   Josset, Jean Luc ^s   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^d FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^k JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^l OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^m NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^o Wakayama University ^*  (Japan)

^p KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^r WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^s Kyoto University   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUNAR CRUST; MAGMATISM; OPTIMIZATION; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVOLUTION; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEA;

EID: 70249124560     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08317     Document Type: Article

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