A Mercury-like component of early Earth yields uranium in the core and high mantle 142Nd

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7547, 2015, Pages 337-340

  Wohlers, Anke ^a   Wood, Bernard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; MERCURY; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM 142; SILICATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; THORIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM;

ABLATION; GEODYNAMO; HEAT PRODUCTION; HEAT SOURCE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MANTLE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); URANIUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; HEAT LOSS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOGENESIS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84928396151     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14350     Document Type: Article

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