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 …

Iron-rich Fe–O compounds at Earth's core pressures

J Liu, Y Sun, C Lv, F Zhang, S Fu, VB Prakapenka… - The Innovation, 2023 - cell.com
Oxygen and iron are the most abundant elements on Earth, and their compounds are key
planet-forming components. While oxygen is pervasive in the mantle, its presence in the …

Stratification in planetary cores by liquid immiscibility in Fe-SH

S Yokoo, K Hirose, S Tagawa, G Morard… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid-liquid immiscibility has been widely observed in iron alloy systems at ambient
pressure and is important for the structure and dynamics in iron cores of rocky planets. While …

Structural and electronic transitions in liquid FeO under high pressure

G Morard, D Antonangeli, J Bouchet… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
FeO represents an important end‐member for planetary interiors mineralogy. However, its
properties in the liquid state under high pressure are poorly constrained. Here, in situ high …

Phase relations of Earth's core-forming materials

T Komabayashi - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent updates on phase relations of Earth's core-forming materials, Fe alloys, as a function
of pressure (P), temperature (T), and composition (X) are reviewed for the Fe, Fe-Ni, Fe-O …

New opportunities for high pressure X-ray absorption spectroscopy at ID24-DCM and BM23 with the Extremely Brilliant Source of the ESRF

AD Rosa, G Garbarino, JE Rodrigues, E Mijit… - High Pressure …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Here we present the new experimental stations devoted to the studies of matter under
extreme conditions at the X-ray absorption beamlines BM23 and ID24-DCM that were …

Precipitation of multiple light elements to power Earth's early dynamo

T Mittal, N Knezek, SM Arveson, CP McGuire… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Earth has had a global magnetic field for at least 3.5 billion years, but if the iron-alloy in the
core has high conductivity, it is difficult to explain this duration with energy from cooling and …

Extensive iron–water exchange at Earth's core–mantle boundary can explain seismic anomalies

K Kawano, M Nishi, H Kuwahara, S Kakizawa… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Seismological observations indicate the presence of chemical heterogeneities at the
lowermost mantle, just above the core–mantle boundary (CMB), sparking debate over their …

Phase transitions and spin state of iron in FeO under the conditions of Earth's deep interior

E Greenberg, R Nazarov, A Landa, J Ying, RQ Hood… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Iron-bearing oxides undergo a series of pressure-induced electronic, spin, and structural
transitions that can cause seismic anomalies and dynamic instabilities in Earth's mantle and …

Melting experiments on Fe‐O‐H and Fe‐H: Evidence for eutectic melting in Fe‐FeH and implications for hydrogen in the core

K Oka, N Ikuta, S Tagawa, K Hirose… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We examined liquidus phase relations in Fe‐O±H at∼ 40 and∼ 150 GPa, and in Fe‐H at 45
GPa. While it has been speculated that Fe and FeH form continuous solid solution to core …