Neutral buoyancy of titanium-rich melts in the deep lunar interior

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 186-189

  Van Kan Parker, Mirjam ^a   Sanloup, Chrystèle ^b,c   Sator, Nicolas ^d   Guillot, Bertrand ^d   Tronche, Elodie J ^a   Perrillat, Jean Philippe ^e   Mezouar, Mohamed ^f   Rai, Nachiketa ^a   Van Westrenen, Wim ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^f EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BUOYANCY; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUNAR MANTLE; MAGMA CHAMBER; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARTIAL MELTING; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; TITANIUM; VOLCANISM;

EID: 84857806084     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1402     Document Type: Article

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