Chemical Differentiation of Planets: A Core IssueOPEN ACCESS
Hervé Toulhoat, Viacheslav Zgonnik The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 924, Number 2Published: 14 January 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “By plotting empirical chemical element abundances on Earth relative to the Sun and normalized to silicon…
Supply of phosphate to early Earth by photogeochemistry after meteoritic weathering
Dougal J. Ritson, Stephen J. Mojzsis & John. D. Sutherland Nature Geoscience (2020) Published: 23 March 2020 LINK “During terrestrial differentiation, the relatively small amount of phosphorus that migrated to the lithosphere was incorporated into…
Iron isotope evidence for very rapid accretion and differentiation of the proto-EarthOPEN ACCESS
Martin Schiller, Martin Bizzarro, and Julien Siebert Science Advances 12 Feb 2020: Vol. 6, no. 7, eaay7604 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay7604 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Nucleosynthetic isotope variability among solar system objects provides insights into…
Earth’s volatile element depletion pattern inherited from a carbonaceous chondrite-like source
Ninja Braukmüller, Frank Wombacher, Claudia Funk & Carsten Münker Nature Geoscience, 1–5 LINK Supplementary information (PDF) “Earth’s volatile element abundances (for example, sulfur, zinc, indium and lead) provide constraints on fundamental processes, such as planetary…
Delivery of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur to the silicate Earth by a giant impactOPEN ACCESS
Damanveer S. Grewal, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Chenguang Sun, Kyusei Tsuno and Gelu Costin Science Advances 23 Jan 2019: Vol. 5, no. 1, eaau3669 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau3669 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Earth’s status as the only…
Enstatite chondrites EL3 as building blocks for the Earth: The debate over the 146Sm–142Nd systematics
M. Boyet, A. Bouvier, P. Frossard, T. Hammouda, M. Garçon, A. Gannoun Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 488, 15 April 2018, Pages 68–78 LINK “Highlights • Here we present the first high precision Nd…
Iron isotopic fractionation between silicate mantle and metallic core at high pressureOPEN ACCESS
Jin Liu, Nicolas Dauphas, Mathieu Roskosz, Michael Y. Hu, Hong Yang, Wenli Bi, Jiyong Zhao, Esen E. Alp, Justin Y. Hu & Jung-Fu Lin Nature Communications 8, Article number: 14377 (2017) doi:10.1038/ncomms14377 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Non-chondritic iron isotope ratios in planetary mantles as a result of core formation
Stephen M. Elardo & Anat Shahar Nature Geoscience (2017) doi:10.1038/ngeo2896 Published online 20 February 2017 LINK “Information about the materials and conditions involved in planetary formation and differentiation in the early Solar System is recorded…
Core merging and stratification following giant impact
Maylis Landeau, Peter Olson, Renaud Deguen & Benjamin H. Hirsh Nature Geoscience(2016) doi:10.1038/ngeo2808 Published online 12 September 2016 LINK “A stratified layer below the core–mantle boundary has long been suspected on the basis of geomagnetic…
Carbon and sulfur budget of the silicate Earth explained by accretion of differentiated planetary embryos
Yuan Li, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Kyusei Tsuno, Brian Monteleone & Nobumichi Shimizu Nature Geoscience doi:10.1038/ngeo2801 Published online 05 September 2016 LINK “The abundances of volatile elements in the Earth’s mantle have been attributed to the delivery…
Chondritic xenon in the Earth’s mantle
Antonio Caracausi,Guillaume Avice,Peter G. Burnard, Evelyn Füri,Bernard Marty Nature (25 April 2016) | doi:10.1038/nature17434 LINK “Noble gas isotopes are powerful tracers of the origins of planetary volatiles, and the accretion and evolution of the Earth….
The stable Cr isotopic compositions of chondrites and silicate planetary reservoirs
Ronny Schoenberg, Alexandra Merdian, Chris Holmden, Ilka C. Kleinhanns, Kathrin Haßler, Martin Wille, Elmar Reitter Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 March 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.013 LINK “The depletion of chromium in…
The accretion and differentiation of Earth under oxidizing conditions
R. Bastian Georg and Anat Shahar American Mineralogist doi: 10.2138/am-2015-5153 Volume 100 no. 11-12 p. 2739-2748 LINK “We present a new approach to model planetary accretion and continuous core formation, and discuss the implications if…
The abundance of 26Al-rich planetary systems in the Galaxy
Matthieu Gounelle Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 582, October 2015 Published online: 30 September 2015 LINK “One of the most puzzling properties of the solar system is the high abundance at its birth of 26Al, a…
Melting and mixing states of the Earth’s mantle after the Moon-forming impact
Miki Nakajima, , David J. Stevenson Earth and Planetary Science Letters doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.023 LINK
Extensive volatile loss during formation and differentiation of the Moon
Chizu Kato, Frederic Moynier, Maria C. Valdes, Jasmeet K. Dhaliwal, James M.D. Day Nature Communications 6, Article number: 7617 doi:10.1038/ncomms8617 LINK (open access)
Platinum partitioning between metal and silicate melts: Core formation, late veneer and the nanonuggets issue
Etienne Médard, Max W. Schmidt, Markus Wälle, Nicole S. Keller, Detlef Günther Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In press, available online 16 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.019 LINK
Meteorite zircon constraints on the bulk Lu−Hf isotope composition and early differentiation of the Earth
Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Takao Yamaguchi, Yuki Hibiya, and Yuri Amelin PNAS 2015 ; published ahead of print April 13, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1501658112 LINK Supporting information (PDF)
Extinct isotope heterogeneities in the mantles of Earth and Mars: Implications for mantle stirring rates
Jacobsen, S. B. and Yu, G. (2015) Meteoritics & Planetary Science doi: 10.1111/maps.12426 LINK