Accretion and core formation: Constraints from metal-silicate partitioning

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

Volumn 366, Issue 1883, 2008, Pages 4339-4355

  Wood, Bernard J ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High pressure; Metal silicate partitioning; Mineral physics

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHROMIUM; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METALS; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; NIOBIUM; OCEAN CURRENTS; OXIDATION; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICATES; SILICON; SMELTING; TRANSITION METALS; VANADIUM;

CONSISTENT; CONTINUOUS; CORE FORMATIONS; HIGH PRESSURE; INCOMPATIBLE ELEMENTS; LIQUIDUS; MAGMA OCEANS; MAXIMUM PRESSURES; MINERAL PHYSICS; MODEL YIELDS; OXIDATION STATES; REFRACTORY ELEMENTS; SI CONTENTS; YIELDING;

REFRACTORY METALS;

METAL; SILICATE;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SILICATES;

EID: 54049149853     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0115     Document Type: Article

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