Effect of water on metal-silicate partitioning of siderophile elements: A high pressure and temperature terrestrial magma ocean and core formation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 383-399

  Righter, Kevin ^a   Drake, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Earth Moon couple; Magma oceans; Partitioning; Siderophile elements

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); MANTLE; PARTITIONING; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENT;

EID: 0032787035     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00156-9     Document Type: Article

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