Suspect cubic diamond "impact" proxy and a suspect lonsdaleite identification

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 34, 2012, Pages

  Daulton, Tyrone L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; LONSDALEITE; NANODIAMOND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84865280290     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206253109     Document Type: Letter

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