Heavy Isotope Composition of Oxygen in Zircon from Soil Sample 14163: Lunar Perspective of an Early Ocean on the Earth
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PERSPECTIVE OF AN EARLY OCEAN ON THE EARTH. A.A. Nemchin, M. J. Whitehouse, R.T. Pidgeon and C. Meyer, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley Western Australia, 6102, Australia. Laboratory for Isotope Geology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, S-104-05 Stockholm, Sweden. Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Western Australia, 6102, Australia. NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006