Potassium isotopic evidence for a high-energy giant impact origin of the Moon

Nature

Volumn 538, Issue 7626, 2016, Pages 487-490

  Wang, Kun ^a,b   Jacobsen, Stein B ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; POTASSIUM; SILICATE;

CONDENSATION; EARTH; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METEORITE; MOON; POTASSIUM; SILICATE; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVAPORATION; FRACTIONATION; GRANITE; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VAPOR;

EID: 84993949345     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature19341     Document Type: Article

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