A record of impacts preserved in the lunar regolith

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 155-165

  Shuster, David L ^a   Balco, Greg ^a,b   Cassata, William S ^a,b   Fernandes, Vera A ^a,b   Garrick Bethell, Ian ^c   Weiss, Benjamin P ^c  

^a BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar thermochronometry; Apollo; lunar impacts; Moon; regolith

Indexed keywords

40AR/39AR THERMOCHRONOMETRY; AR SYSTEM; ASTEROID BELT; DATA SETS; DIFFUSION KINETICS; EPISODIC PULSE; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMPACT EVENTS; IMPACTORS; INNER SYSTEMS; LUNAR REGOLITH; METEOROID IMPACTS; OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; REGOLITH SAMPLES; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

GALLIUM; LUNAR SURFACE ANALYSIS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARGON;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DIFFUSION; EPISODIC EVENT; LUNAR METEORITE; MOON; REGOLITH; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 74149086493     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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