Several features of Earth owe their origin to processes occurring during and shortly following
Earth formation. Collisions with planetary embryos caused substantial melting of the growing …

The Moon was probably formed by a catastrophic collision of the proto-Earth with a
planetesimal named Theia. Most numerical models of this collision imply a higher portion of …

Geochemical evidence suggests that the material accreted by the Earth did not change in
nature during Earth's accretion, presumably because the inner protoplanetary disc had …

Calcium is the fifth most abundant element in the Earth and in chondrites and is a pure
lithophile element which does not partition into planetary cores. Therefore, the calcium …

Thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) was used to measure the calcium isotopic
compositions of carbonaceous, ordinary, enstatite chondrites as well as eucrites and …

Partitioning of sulphur between liquid Fe-rich metals and silicates (DS met/sil) was
investigated at temperatures from 1800° C to 2400° C, pressures from 2 to 23 GPa and …

The energy associated with giant impacts is large enough to generate global magma
oceans during Earth's accretion. However, geochemical evidence requiring a terrestrial …

The primary goal of KamLAND is a search for the oscillation of ̄ ν _ e ν¯ e's emitted from
distant power reactors. The long baseline, typically 180 km, enables KamLAND to address …

To better address how Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt (MORB) sulfur isotope composition can be
modified by assimilation and/or by immiscible sulfide fractionation, we report sulfur (S) …

Earth's core is an iron‐rich alloy containing several weight percent of light element (s),
possibly including silicon. Therefore, the high pressure‐temperature equations of state of …