High-pressure melting relations in Fe-C-S systems: Implications for formation, evolution, and structure of metallic cores in planetary bodies

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 73, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6678-6691

  Dasgupta, Rajdeep ^a,b   Buono, Antonio ^b   Whelan, Geoff ^b   Walker, David ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORE (PLANETARY); CRYSTALLIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GEODYNAMO; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IMMISCIBILITY; MELT; MELTING; P-T CONDITIONS; SOLUBILITY; SULFUR;

EID: 70349179382     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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