Tungsten isotopic evolution during late-stage accretion: Constraints on Earth-Moon equilibration

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 363-370

  Nimmo, F ^a   O'Brien, D P ^b   Kleine, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accretion; Impacts; Moon; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; ACCRETION TIMESCALES; CIRCULAR ORBIT; DYNAMICAL MODEL; EARTH'S MANTLE; GIANT IMPACT; IMPACTORS; IMPACTS; JUPITERS; N-BODY SIMULATION; O'BRIEN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PLANETARY BODIES; SEMIMAJOR AXIS;

HAFNIUM; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; ISOTOPES; TUNGSTEN;

MOON;

ACCRETION; EARTH STRUCTURE; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; JUPITER; MOON; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; SATURN; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 77950534819     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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