Microsegregation rates of liquid Fe-Ni-S metal in natural silicate-metal systems: A combined experimental and numerical study

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Rushmer, Tracy ^a   Petford, Nick ^a,b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

core formation; experiment; numerical simulations; partial melting; planetesimal

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID METALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; METALS; METEORITES; SILICATES;

CORE FORMATION; DISTRIBUTION OF METAL; FLOW OF LIQUIDS; IMAGE-BASED; INITIAL STAGES; MATRIX FLOW; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; MELT SEGREGATION; METAL SYSTEMS; MICRO-SCALES; MICRO-SEGREGATION; NAVIER STOKES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PARTIAL MELTING; PLANETESIMAL; POROUS FLOW; SEGREGATION RATE; SILICATE MATRIX; VELOCITY FLOW;

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

ANISOTROPY; CHONDRITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE (PLANETARY); DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IRON; NICKEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTIAL MELTING; PERMEABILITY; SILICATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SULFUR;

EID: 79953698501     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003413     Document Type: Article

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