Preservation potential of implanted solar wind volatiles in lunar paleoregolith deposits buried by lava flows

Icarus

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 595-604

  Fagents, Sarah A ^a   Elise Rumpf, M ^a   Crawford, Ian A ^b   Joy, Katherine H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Centre for Planetary Sciences University College London   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Moon, Surface; Regoliths; Solar wind; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952585636     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.11.033     Document Type: Article

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