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Clément Suavet1, Benjamin P Weiss, William S Cassata

  • 1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. csuavet@mit.edu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|May 8, 2013
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high-K mare basaltspaleomagnetism

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