Cooling of the Earth and core formation after the giant impact

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7063, 2005, Pages 1345-1348

  Wood, Bernard J ^a,c   Halliday, Alex N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; MOON; OXIDATION; PALLADIUM; PEROVSKITE; SILICATES;

CONDUCTIVE COOLING; CORE-FORMATION; CRYSTALLINE STATES; MOON-FORMING GIANT IMPACT;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CRYSTALLIN; IRON; LEAD; METAL; PEROVSKITE; SILICATE; SULFUR;

ACCRETION; COOLING; EARLY EARTH; IMPACT; PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLD; CRYSTALLIZATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

EID: 27644476265     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04129     Document Type: Article

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