Potassium and Calcium in Lunar Impact Spherules
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Renne, and R. A. Rohde, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, Presently at Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry and Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA ([email protected]), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Road, Berkeley, California 94709, USA, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.
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