Segregation of core melts by permeable flow in the lower mantle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 249-257

  Takafuji, Naoto ^a,b   Hirose, Kei ^a   Ono, Shigeaki ^c   Xu, Fangfang ^d   Mitome, Masanori ^d   Bando, Yoshio ^d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Core formation; Dihedral angle; Early Earth; Lower mantle; Permeable flow

Indexed keywords

IRON; LOWER MANTLE; MELT; PARTITIONING; PEROVSKITE; WETTING;

EID: 4143082574     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.05.016     Document Type: Article

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