Partitioning of oxygen during core formation on the Earth and Mars

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6987, 2004, Pages 58-61

  Rubie, David C ^a   Gessmann, Christine K ^a,b   Frost, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH (PLANET); IRON ALLOYS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SOLUBILITY;

CORE FORMATION; MANTLE GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

IRON OXIDE; OXYGEN; SILICATE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORE (PLANETARY); EARTH STRUCTURE; MANTLE CHEMISTRY; MARS; OXYGEN; PARTITIONING;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 2442564531     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02473     Document Type: Article

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