Possible mantle origin of olivine around lunar impact basins detected by SELENE

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 533-536

  Yamamoto, Satoru ^a   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^b   Matsunaga, Tsuneo ^a   Ogawa, Yoshiko ^c   Ishihara, Yoshiaki ^d   Morota, Tomokatsu ^e   Hirata, Naru ^c   Ohtake, Makiko ^e   Hiroi, Takahiro ^f   Yokota, Yasuhiro ^a   Haruyama, Junichi ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AITKEN NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; LUNAR MANTLE; MAGNESIUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIVINE; PLAGIOCLASE; PLUTON; PYROXENE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

CITRUS RETICULATA;

EID: 77955195359     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo897     Document Type: Article

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