Widespread mixing and burial of Earth's Hadean crust by asteroid impacts

Nature

Volumn 511, Issue 7511, 2014, Pages 578-582

  Marchi, S ^a   Bottke, W F ^a   Elkins Tanton, L T ^b,f   Bierhaus, M ^c   Wuennemann, K ^c   Morbidelli, A ^d   Kring, D A ^e  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIRCONIUM;

ADIABATICITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVOLUTION; HADEAN; LITHOSPHERE; MELTING POINT; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SURFACE PROPERTY; VAPORIZATION; WATER VAPOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; MINOR PLANETS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84905002607     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13539     Document Type: Article

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