Water in lunar anorthosites and evidence for a wet early Moon

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 177-180

  Hui, Hejiu ^a   Peslier, Anne H ^b,c   Zhang, Youxue ^d   Neal, Clive R ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b JACOBS TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DETECTION METHOD; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LUNAR CRUST; METEORITE; MOON; PEDOGENESIS; REGOLITH; UPPER CRUST; VOLCANIC ROCK;

EID: 84874603597     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1735     Document Type: Article

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