Earth's patchy late veneer

Thorsten Kleine ()
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Thorsten Kleine: Thorsten Kleine is at the Institute for Planetology, University of Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 10, 48149 Münster, Germany.

Nature, 2011, vol. 477, issue 7363, 168-169

Abstract: A 'late veneer' of meteoritic material, added after Earth's core had formed, may be the source of our noble metals. Its absence from some parts of Earth's mantle will now force a rethink about this late accretion. See Letter p.195

Date: 2011
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