Shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds in Younger Dryas boundary sediments

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2009-08-04

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/pnas.0906374106PMID 19620728PMCID PMC2722287
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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