The L3-6 chondritic regolith breccia Northwest Africa (NWA) 869: (II) Noble gases and cosmogenic radionuclides

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 970-988

  Welten, Kees ^a   Caffee, Marc W ^b   Franke, Luitgard ^c   Timothy Jull, A J ^d   Leclerc, Marlene D ^d   Metzler, Knut ^e   Ott, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d The University of Arizona   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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EID: 79955721121     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01204.x     Document Type: Article

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