Si isotope systematics of meteorites and terrestrial peridotites: implications for Mg/Si fractionation in the solar nebula and for Si in the Earth's core

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 77-85

  Fitoussi, Caroline ^a   Bourdon, Bernard ^a   Kleine, Thorsten ^a   Oberli, Felix ^a   Reynolds, Ben C ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bulk silicate earth; chondrites; core formation; silicon isotopes

Indexed keywords

BULK SILICATE EARTH; CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITES; CHONDRITES; CORE FORMATION; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT PROCESS; EARTH'S CORE; EARTH'S MANTLE; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE RATIO; MAGMA OCEAN; MULTI-COLLECTOR; SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS; SILICON ISOTOPES; SOLAR NEBULA; STANDARD DEVIATION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OLIVINE; PETROGRAPHY; SILICATE MINERALS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES;

METEORITES;

CARBONACEOUS CHONDRITE; DATA SET; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METEORITE; PERIDOTITE; SILICON;

EID: 70349408978     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.038     Document Type: Article

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