Ingassing, storage, and outgassing of terrestrial carbon through geologic time

R Dasgupta - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earth is unique among the terrestrial planets in our solar system in having a fluid envelope
that fosters life. The secrets behind Earth's habitable climate are well-tuned cycles of carbon …

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 …

Mössbauer spectroscopy of iron carbides: From prediction to experimental confirmation

XW Liu, S Zhao, Y Meng, Q Peng, AK Dearden… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The Mössbauer spectroscopy of iron carbides (α-Fe, γ'-FeC, η-Fe2C, ζ-Fe2C, χ-Fe5C2, h-
Fe7C3, θ-Fe3C, o-Fe7C3, γ'-Fe4C, γ''-Fe4C, and α'-Fe16C2) is predicted utilizing the all …

Structure, bonding, and mineralogy of carbon at extreme conditions

AR Oganov, RJ Hemley… - … in Mineralogy and …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The nature and extent of Earth's deep carbon cycle remains uncertain. This chapter
considers high-pressure carbon-bearing minerals, including those of Earth's mantle and …

High Poisson's ratio of Earth's inner core explained by carbon alloying

C Prescher, L Dubrovinsky, E Bykova, I Kupenko… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Geochemical, cosmochemical, geophysical, and mineral physics data suggest that iron (or
iron–nickel alloy) is the main component of the Earth's core,,. The inconsistency between the …

The elemental abundances (with uncertainties) of the most Earth-like planet

HS Wang, CH Lineweaver, TR Ireland - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
To first order, the Earth as well as other rocky planets in the Solar System and rocky
exoplanets orbiting other stars, are refractory pieces of the stellar nebula out of which they …

Hidden carbon in Earth's inner core revealed by shear softening in dense Fe7C3

B Chen, Z Li, D Zhang, J Liu, MY Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Earth's inner core is known to consist of crystalline iron alloyed with a small amount of nickel
and lighter elements, but the shear wave (S wave) travels through the inner core at about …

Carbon in the core: its influence on the properties of core and mantle

BJ Wood, J Li, A Shahar - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earth's core is known to be metallic, with a density of about 9.90 Mg· m− 3 at the coremantle
boundary and as such is substantially denser than the surrounding mantle (5.56 Mg· m− 3 at …

Synthesis of binary transition metal nitrides, carbides and borides from the elements in the laser-heated diamond anvil cell and their structure-property relations

A Friedrich, B Winkler, EA Juarez-Arellano… - Materials, 2011 - mdpi.com
Transition metal nitrides, carbides and borides have a high potential for industrial
applications as they not only have a high melting point but are generally harder and less …

Dynamic history of the inner core constrained by seismic anisotropy

DA Frost, M Lasbleis, B Chandler, B Romanowicz - Nature Geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
Progressive crystallization of Earth's inner core drives convection in the outer core and
magnetic field generation. Determining the rate and pattern of inner-core growth is thus …