Composition of the Earth's interior: The importance of early events

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1883, 2008, Pages 4077-4103

  Carlson, Richard W ^a   Boyet, Maud ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Early differentiation; Earth's interior; Nd isotopes; Terrestrial magnetism

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); METEORITES; NEODYMIUM; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS; SECURITY OF DATA; SILICATES;

ARCHAEAN; BULK SILICATE EARTHS; COMPOSITION OF THE EARTHS; COMPOSITIONAL MODELS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONVECTING MANTLES; CRUSTAL ROCKS; EARLY DIFFERENTIATION; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EARTH'S INTERIORS; HIGH DENSITIES; LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; LOW VISCOSITIES; MAGMA OCEANS; MANTLE SOURCES; MASS BALANCES; ND ISOTOPES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCES; TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM; TERRESTRIAL ROCKS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ISOTOPE;

ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; SEDIMENT; VISCOSITY;

EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 54049140071     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0166     Document Type: Article

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