Moderately and slightly siderophile element constraints on the depth and extent of melting in early Mars

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-176

  Righter, Kevin ^a   Chabot, Nancy L ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01140.x     Document Type: Article

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