Silicon in the Earth's core

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7148, 2007, Pages 1102-1106

  Georg, R Bastian ^a,b   Halliday, Alex N ^a   Schauble, Edwin A ^c   Reynolds, Ben C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ACCRETION; BASALT; CHONDRITE; EARTH; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARS; MOON; SILICATE MINERAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BASALT; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34347326160     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05927     Document Type: Article

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