Element partitioning between metallic liquid, silicate liquid, and lower-mantle minerals: Implications for core formation of the Earth

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 100, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 97-114

  Ohtani, Eiji ^a   Yurimoto, Hisayoshi ^b   Seto, Shuji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE; LOWER MANTLE; METALLIC LIQUID; PARTITIONING; PLANETARY FORMATION; SILICATE LIQUID;

EID: 0030734945     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03234-7     Document Type: Article

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