Two extraterrestrial dust horizons found in the Dome Fuji ice core, East Antarctica

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 287-297

  Misawa, Keiji ^a,b   Kohno, Mika ^a   Tomiyama, Takayuki ^a   Noguchi, Takaaki ^c   Nakamura, Tomoki ^d   Nagao, Keisuke ^e   Mikouchi, Takashi ^e   Nishiizumi, Kunihiko ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; comet; ice core; impact; meteoroid

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONSTITUENT PHASIS; DISTRIBUTION AREA; DUST LAYER; EUROPEAN PROJECT; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN; HIGH-TEMPERATURE INTERACTION; HIGH-TEMPERATURE MELTING; HYPERVELOCITY IMPACTS; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; IMPACTORS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PARENT MATERIALS; PARTICLE FLUXES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TOTAL MASS; WIDE AREA;

ATMOSPHERICS; DOMES; DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OLIVINE; OXYGEN; SILICATE MINERALS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ICE;

ASTEROID; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMET; DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ICE CORE; IMPACT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEORITE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SPHERULE;

ANTARCTICA; DOME FUJI; EAST ANTARCTICA;

SPHERULES;

EID: 72949085067     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

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