Late delivery of chondritic hydrogen into the lunar mantle: Insights from mare basalts

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 361, Issue , 2013, Pages 480-486

  Tartèse, Romain ^a   Anand, Mahesh ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chondritic hydrogen; H2 degassing; Hydrogen isotopes; Late accretion; Mare basalts

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; HYDROGEN DELIVERY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; LATE ACCRETION; LUNAR INTERIOR; LUNAR MATERIALS; LUNAR SAMPLES; MELT INCLUSIONS; OH CONTENTS; SPACECRAFT MISSIONS; VOLCANIC GLASS;

BASALT; ISOTOPES; MOON; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

HYDROGEN;

ACCRETION; CHONDRITE; DEGASSING; DETECTION METHOD; HYDROGEN; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; IN SITU TEST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LUNAR MANTLE; MARE BASALT; MOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

EID: 84872287387     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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