Composition and state of the core

K Hirose, S Labrosse, J Hernlund - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The composition and state of Earth's core, located deeper than 2,900 km from the surface,
remain largely uncertain. Recent static experiments on iron and alloys performed up to inner …

Urey ratio and the structure and evolution of Earth's mantle

J Korenaga - Reviews of Geophysics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The Urey ratio describes the contribution of internal heat production to planetary‐scale
energy balance, and knowing this thermal budget for Earth is essential to understand its …

Powering Earth's dynamo with magnesium precipitation from the core

JG O'Rourke, DJ Stevenson - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Earth's global magnetic field arises from vigorous convection within the liquid outer core.
Palaeomagnetic evidence reveals that the geodynamo has operated for at least 3.4 billion …

Zinc isotope composition of the Earth and its behaviour during planetary accretion

PA Sossi, O Nebel, HSC O'Neill, F Moynier - Chemical Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
The terrestrial planets are depleted in volatile elements with respect to chondritic meteorites,
their possible building blocks. However, the timing, extent and origin of volatile depletion is …

The K/U ratio of the silicate Earth: Insights into mantle composition, structure and thermal evolution

R Arevalo Jr, WF McDonough, M Luong - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
The abundance of K in the silicate Earth provides control on the composition of the Earth's
interior, the dominant mode of mantle convection, the thermal evolution of the planet, and …

Reconciliation of experiments and theory on transport properties of iron and the geodynamo

Y Zhang, M Hou, G Liu, C Zhang, VB Prakapenka… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We measure the electrical resistivity of hcp iron up to∼ 170 GPa and∼ 3000 K using a four-
probe van der Pauw method coupled with homogeneous flattop laser heating in a DAC, and …

Meteorites have inherited nucleosynthetic anomalies of potassium-40 produced in supernovae

NX Nie, D Wang, ZA Torrano, RW Carlson… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Meteorites record processes that occurred before and during the formation of the Solar
System in the form of nucleosynthetic anomalies: isotopic compositions that differ from the …

Geochemistry and cosmochemistry of potassium stable isotopes

K Wang, W Li, S Li, Z Tian, P Koefoed, XY Zheng - Geochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Stable potassium isotopes are one of the emerging non-traditional isotope systems enabled
in recent years by the advance of Multi-Collector Inductively-Coupled-Plasma Mass …

Metal–silicate partitioning and constraints on core composition and oxygen fugacity during Earth accretion

A Corgne, S Keshav, BJ Wood, WF McDonough… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2008 - Elsevier
We present the results of new partitioning experiments between metal and silicate melts for
a series of elements normally regarded as refractory lithophile and moderately siderophile …

Is Mercury a volatile‐rich planet?

FM McCubbin, MA Riner… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Data returned from the gamma‐ray spectrometer onboard the Mercury Surface, Space
Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft have been interpreted …