Solid-liquid iron partitioning in Earth's deep mantle

Nature

Volumn 487, Issue 7407, 2012, Pages 354-357

  Andrault, Denis ^a   Petitgirard, Sylvain ^b   Lo Nigro, Giacomo ^a   Devidal, Jean Luc ^a   Veronesi, Giulia ^b   Garbarino, Gaston ^b   Mezouar, Mohamed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; IRON;

ALUMINUM; BUOYANCY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CRYSTALLIZATION; IRON; MAGMA; MANTLE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MELTING; METEORITE; MINERAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUME; VOLCANISM; VOLCANO;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL REACTION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MANTLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863897610     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11294     Document Type: Article

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