The origin of water in the primitive Moon as revealed by the lunar highlands samples

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 390, Issue , 2014, Pages 244-252

  Barnes, Jessica J ^a,b   Tartèse, Romain ^a   Anand, Mahesh ^a,b   McCubbin, Francis M ^c   Franchi, Ian A ^a   Starkey, Natalie A ^a   Russell, Sara S ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Apatite; Hydrogen isotopes; Lunar highlands; Moon; Water

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL DETECTION; CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS; LUNAR HIGHLANDS; PRISTINE MATERIALS;

APATITE; GRANITE; HYDROGEN; LUNAR MISSIONS; METEORITES; MOON; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER;

ISOTOPES;

APATITE; CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE; CLAST; GRANITE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LUNAR CRUST; MARE BASALT; MOON; NORITE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; WATER;

EID: 84893365314     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.015     Document Type: Article

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