Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts

1S. Marchi, 1W. F. Bottke, 2,6L. T. Elkins-Tanton, 3M. Bierhaus, 3K. Wuennemann, 4A. Morbidelli 5D. A. Kring

1Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado 80302, USA
2Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC 20015, USA
3Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin 10115, Germany
4Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice 06304, France A. Morbidelli
5Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas 77058, USA
6Present address: School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA

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Marchi S, Bottke WF, Elkins-Tanton LT, Bierhaus M, Wünnemann K., Morbidelli A, Kring DA (2014) Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts
Nature 511, 578–582

Link to Article [doi:10.1038/nature13539]

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