No iron isotope fractionation between molten alloys and silicate melt to 2000 °C and 7.7 GPa: Experimental evidence and implications for planetary differentiation and accretion

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 278, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 376-385

  Poitrasson, Franck ^a   Roskosz, Mathieu ^b,c   Corgne, Alexandre ^b,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

iron isotopes; mantle and core formation; melting experiments; metal silicate fractionation; terrestrial planet differentiation

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IRON ALLOYS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELTING; METEORITES; MOLTEN MATERIALS; MOON; NICKEL ALLOYS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATES;

CORE FORMATION; ELECTRON MICROPROBES; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; IRON ISOTOPES; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; METAL SILICATES; PLANETARY DIFFERENTIATION; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

ACCRETION; ALLOY; DIFFERENTIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MAGMA; MELTING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MELT;

EID: 60649111037     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.025     Document Type: Article

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