Light elements in the Earth's core

K Hirose, B Wood, L Vočadlo - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Constraining the core's composition is essential for understanding Earth accretion, core
formation and the sustainment of Earth's magnetic field. Earth's outer and inner core exhibit …

Achievements and prospects of global broadband seismographic networks after 30 years of continuous geophysical observations

AT Ringler, RE Anthony, RC Aster… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global seismographic networks (GSNs) emerged during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, facilitated by seminal international developments in theory, technology …

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS)-IV. Planetary systems around low-mass stars

R Burn, M Schlecker, C Mordasini… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Previous theoretical works on planet formation around low-mass stars have often
been limited to large planets and individual systems. As current surveys routinely detect …

Hidden water in magma ocean exoplanets

C Dorn, T Lichtenberg - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate that the deep volatile storage capacity of magma oceans has significant
implications for the bulk composition, interior, and climate state inferred from exoplanet mass …

Direct measurement of thermal conductivity in solid iron at planetary core conditions

Z Konôpková, RS McWilliams, N Gómez-Pérez… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The conduction of heat through minerals and melts at extreme pressures and temperatures
is of central importance to the evolution and dynamics of planets. In the cooling Earth's core …

Experimental determination of the electrical resistivity of iron at Earth's core conditions

K Ohta, Y Kuwayama, K Hirose, K Shimizu, Y Ohishi - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Earth continuously generates a dipole magnetic field in its convecting liquid outer core by a
self-sustained dynamo action. Metallic iron is a dominant component of the outer core, so its …

Mass fractionation laws, mass-independent effects, and isotopic anomalies

N Dauphas, EA Schauble - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Isotopic variations usually follow mass-dependent fractionation, meaning that the relative
variations in isotopic ratios scale with the difference in mass of the isotopes involved (eg …

Magma ocean, water, and the early atmosphere of Venus

A Salvador, G Avice, D Breuer, C Gillmann… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
The current state and surface conditions of the Earth and its twin planet Venus are drastically
different. Whether these differences are directly inherited from the earliest stages of …

[PDF][PDF] 7.06-temperatures, heat and energy in the mantle of the earth

C Jaupart, S Labrosse, F Lucazeau… - Treatise on …, 2007 - researchgate.net
Even a cursory historical look at the development of geology reveals that the cooling of the
Earth has always been a central issue (Birch, 1965; Fourier, 1824; Holmes, 1915; Joly …

Global water cycle and the coevolution of the Earth's interior and surface environment

J Korenaga, NJ Planavsky… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The bulk Earth composition contains probably less than 0.3% of water, but this trace amount
of water can affect the long-term evolution of the Earth in a number of different ways. The …