Lunar basalt chronology, mantle differentiation and implications for determining the age of the Moon
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a Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden b Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia c Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden d Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, UPMC & IRD, 75005 Paris, France e Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK f Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK g Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK h School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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تاریخ انتشار 2016