Highly Siderophile Elements: Constraints on Earth Accretion and Early Differentiation

Earth's Deep Mantle: Structure, Composition, and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 201-218

  Righter, Kevin ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth Mantle Research; Heat Convection, Natural Research; Seismology Research; Thermochemistry Research

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; FELDSPAR; FLOTATION; GOLD ALLOYS; HEAT CONVECTION; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; IRON ALLOYS; ISOTOPES; METALS; OLIVINE; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EARLY DIFFERENTIATION; EARTH MANTLE; HIGH-PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURES; HIGHLY SIDEROPHILE ELEMENTS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LATE ACCRETIONS; MANTLE DIFFERENTIATION; RADIOACTIVE DECAY;

RHENIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84951114523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/160GM13     Document Type: Chapter

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