Formation and evolution of a lunar core from ilmenite-rich magma ocean cumulates

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 139-147

  de Vries, Jellie ^a,b   van den Berg, Arie ^a   van Westrenen, Wim ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

convection; core; ilmenite; moon; thermo chemical modelling

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CORE FORMATION; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DENSE LAYER; GRAVITY ACCELERATION; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INNER CORE; INTERNAL HEAT PRODUCTION; INTERNAL HEATING; LOW GRAVITY; LUNAR CORE; LUNAR INTERIOR; MAGMA OCEAN; METALLIC IRON; PHYSICAL STATE; SEISMIC DATAS; THERMAL BUOYANCY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMO-CHEMICAL; THERMO-CHEMICAL CONVECTION MODELS; TWO PARAMETER;

BUOYANCY; CHEMICAL STABILITY; GRAVITATION; HEATING; LUNAR MISSIONS; MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXIDE MINERALS; SEISMOLOGY;

ILMENITE;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CUMULATE; ILMENITE; INNER CORE; LUNAR MANTLE; MAGMA; MOON; OUTER CORE; THERMAL CONVECTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 77249166505     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.029     Document Type: Article

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