Rayleigh-Taylor instability after giant impacts: Imperfect equilibration of the Hf-W system and its effect on the core formation age

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1035-1045

  Sasaki, Takanori ^a   Abe, Yutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accretion; Collisional physics; Earth; Geochemistry; Planetary formation

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CORE (PLANETARY); GEOCHEMISTRY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPIC RATIO; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 35948952782     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352044     Document Type: Article

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