Oxygen and silicon contents of Earth's core from high pressure metal–silicate partitioning experiments

Angèle Ricolleau (1, 2, 3) , Yingwei Fei (4) , Alexandre Corgne (5) , Julien Siebert (1, 3) , James Badro (1, 3)

1 IMPMC - Institut de minéralogie et de physique des milieux condensés
2 Carnegie Inst Sci, Geophys Lab, Washington, DC 20015 USA
3 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
4 Geophysical Laboratory [Carnegie Institution]
5 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

Keywords: core formation; magma ocean; light elements; high-pressure experiments; metal-silicate partitioning

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Astrophysics [astro-ph]

Angèle Ricolleau, Yingwei Fei, Alexandre Corgne, Julien Siebert, James Badro. Oxygen and silicon contents of Earth's core from high pressure metal–silicate partitioning experiments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2011, 310 (3-4), pp.409-421. ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.004⟩. ⟨insu-02914111⟩