Isotopes as tracers of the sources of the lunar material and processes of lunar origin

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2024, 2014, Pages

  Pahlevan, Kaveh ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Composition; Fractionation; Isotope; Moon; Origin

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EARTH (PLANET); FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; MOON BASES; SILICATES;

CONVECTIVE MIXING; EARTH-MOON SYSTEM; ISOTOPIC ABUNDANCES; ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENT; ORIGIN; ORIGIN OF THE MOON; PLANETARY BODIES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

MOON;

EID: 84906303108     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0257     Document Type: Review

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