Lunar volatile depletion due to incomplete accretion within an impact-generated disk

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 918-921

  Canup, Robin M ^a   Visscher, Channon ^a,b   Salmon, Julien ^a   Fegley, Bruce ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DORDT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; LUNAR CRUST; LUNAR MANTLE; PLANETARY LANDFORM; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 84948419965     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2574     Document Type: Article

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