Simultaneous partitioning of silicon and oxygen into the Earth's core during early Earth differentiation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-71

  Tsuno, Kyusei ^a,b   Frost, Daniel J ^a   Rubie, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK SILICATE EARTH; CORE DENSITY DEFICITS; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DIAMOND-ANVIL CELL EXPERIMENTS; ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID METALS; METALS; OXYGEN; SILICATES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

SILICON;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OUTER CORE; OXYGEN; SILICON; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84874894497     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054116     Document Type: Article

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