Collisional erosion and the non-chondritic composition of the terrestrial planets

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

Volumn 366, Issue 1883, 2008, Pages 4205-4238

  O'Neill, Hugh St C ^a   Palme, Herbert ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collisional erosion; Composition of the Earth; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; EARTH (PLANET); EROSION; HELIUM; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; METEORITES; PLANETS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REFRACTORY METALS; SILICATES; SILICON; SOIL MECHANICS;

BULK SILICATE EARTHS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATIONS; CHEMICAL VARIATIONS; COLLISIONAL EROSION; COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH; COMPOSITIONAL FEATURES; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATIONS; EARTH MODELS; EARTH'S ACCRETIONS; EXTREME CASES; FEEDING ZONES; FRACTIONATION PROCESSES; GREAT-ER; HELIOCENTRIC DISTANCES; LITHOPHILE ELEMENTS; OCEAN BASINS; OXIDATION STATES; PLANETARY BODIES; RADIOGENIC HEAT PRODUCTIONS; RAPID ACCRETIONS; ROCKY BODIES; SOLAR NEBULAS; SOLID MATTERS; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; VOLATILE ELEMENTS;

FRACTIONATION;

ASTRONOMY; MICROCLIMATE;

EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; METEOROIDS; PLANETS;

EID: 54049149856     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0111     Document Type: Article

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