Computer simulations of water interactions with low-coordinated forsterite surface sites: Implications for the origin of water in the inner solar system

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 300, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 11-18

  King, H E ^a   Stimpfl, M ^b   Deymier, P ^c   Drake, M J ^b   Catlow, C R A ^d   Putnis, A ^a   de Leeuw, N H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forsterite; Fractal surfaces; Planetary accretion; Water chemisorption

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION DISKS; ADSORPTION OF WATER; DISSOCIATIVE ADSORPTION; DUST GRAINS; ENERGETIC BARRIERS; FINAL ENERGY; FORSTERITES; FRACTAL SURFACES; LANGMUIR MODELS; LOW COORDINATION; PLANETARY ACCRETION; PRESSURE CONDITIONS; SURFACE SITES; WATER ADSORPTION; WATER CHEMISORPTION; WATER DISSOCIATION; WATER INTERACTIONS;

ADSORPTION; CHEMISORPTION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOCIATION; DUST; FRACTALS; LANDFORMS; OLIVINE; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOLAR SYSTEM;

DEWATERING;

ACCRETION; ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORSTERITE; PLANETARY SURFACE; SOLAR SYSTEM; STOICHIOMETRY; WATER;

EID: 78149499149     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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