The age of the Solar System redefined by the oldest Pb-b age of a meteoritic inclusion

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 637-641

  Bouvier, Audrey ^a   Wadhwa, Meenakshi ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHONDRITE; LEAD ISOTOPE; LEAD-LEAD DATING; METEORITE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; SOLAR SYSTEM; TIMESCALE;

AFRICA;

EID: 77956271165     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo941     Document Type: Article

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