Textural entrapment of core-forming melts

Science

Volumn 272, Issue 5261, 1996, Pages 530-533

  Minarik, William G ^a   Ryerson, Frederick J ^a   Watson, E Bruce ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE FORMATION; CORE SEPARATION; PLANETARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029751149     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5261.530     Document Type: Article

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35. We thank M. Hirschmann for discussions that motivated the initial experiments, and G. Gwanmesia, B. Li, and R. Lieberman, who helped with preliminary multianvil work. Reviews by J. Brenan, D. Farber, and N Marchildon improved the manuscript. Supported by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (F.J.R.) under the auspices of Department of Energy contract W-7405-Eng-48 Additional support was provided by National Science Foundation grants EAR-8717341 and EAR-9105055 to E.B.W.