Establishing a 14.6 ± 0.2 Ma age for the Nördlinger Ries impact (Germany) - A prime example for concordant isotopic ages from various dating materials

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 662-674

  Buchner, Elmar ^a,b   Schwarz, Winfried H ^c   Schmieder, Martin ^a   Trieloff, Mario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b HNU Hochschule   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 77956048887     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01046.x     Document Type: Article

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