Sentence examples for mantle differentiation from inspiring English sources
Breuer, D., Spohn, T. & Wüllner, U. Mantle differentiation and the crustal dichotomy of Mars.
Touboul, M., Puchtel, I. S. & Walker, R. J. 182W evidence for long-term preservation of early mantle differentiation products.
The isotopic composition of Pb, Nd, Sr, Hf, and Os, as well as rare-Earth element abundances, is used to study the origin of volcanic rocks, the time scale of mantle differentiation, and the nature of planetary formation processes.
Because noble gases are liable to be lost from the solid earth when a mantle differentiation occurs on a global scale in the upper mantle, the data on noble gas isotopes could give constraints on the structure of the mantle that differ from those by solid element isotopes.
The Lu-Hf isotope system is widely used to decipher the crustal evolution and mantle differentiation of the Earth.
In this respect, the Lu-Hf system has been effectively used to trace crustal evolution and mantle differentiation of the Earth since the early 1980s (Patchett et al. 1981; Patchett & Tatsumoto 1980; Patchett 1983).
My research focuses on processes that occurred in the primitive Earth, during the period when core-mantle differentiation was ongoing.
However, accretion of Earth mostly involved collisions with bodies that previously had undergone core-mantle differentiation (e.g. Kleine et al. 2009).
Following the decay of short-lived 26Al, the heat required for core-mantle differentiation of the Earth resulted primarily from high-energy impacts with other planetary bodies.
Based on this latter point, it is clear that understanding the evolution of magma ocean depth during accretion is of fundamental importance for modelling core-mantle differentiation.
The depth of melting in the target body after each collision determines the pressure and temperature conditions of metal-silicate equilibration and thus geochemical fractionation that results from core-mantle differentiation.
