A noble gas and cosmogenic radionuclide analysis of two ordinary chondrites from Almahata Sitta

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1075-1086

  Meier, Matthias M M ^a,b   Welten, Kees C ^c   Caffee, Marc W ^d   Friedrich, Jon M ^e,f   Jenniskens, Peter ^g   Nishiizumi, Kunihiko ^c   Shaddad, Muawia H ^h   Wieler, Rainer ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^g SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

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EID: 84863735678     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01379.x     Document Type: Article

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