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Metal-silicate Partitioning at High Pressure and Temperature: Experimental Methods and a Protocol to Suppress Highly Siderophile Element Inclusions
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Experimentos de alta presión y alta temperatura sobre la segregación núcleo-manto en el acrecentamiento de la Tierra
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|June 3, 1994
Resumen
El núcleo y el manto de la Tierra probablemente no alcanzaron el equilibrio a través de simples interacciones metal-silicato. Los datos experimentales sugieren que la segregación núcleo-manto implicaba procesos complejos, no sólo el equilibrio químico básico.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La geoquímica es la geoquímica.
- Ciencias planetarias Ciencias planetarias.
- Ciencias de la Tierra Ciencias de la Tierra Ciencias de la Tierra
Sus antecedentes:
- Las abundancias observadas de elementos siderófilos en el manto de silicato de la Tierra son inconsistentes con la partición de equilibrio con el núcleo a bajas presiones y temperaturas.
- Una solución propuesta sugiere que el equilibrio a altas presiones y temperaturas durante la formación del núcleo podría explicar estas abundancias.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Determinar experimentalmente la distribución de los elementos siderófilos entre las fases de metal líquido y silicato líquido a altas presiones y temperaturas.
- Evaluar la probabilidad de un simple equilibrio metal-silicato que explique las abundancias de elementos siderófilos observadas en el manto de la Tierra.
Principales métodos:
- Determinación experimental de la separación de los elementos siderófilos.
- Simulación de las condiciones límite núcleo-manto a 100 kilobares y 2000 grados C.
Principales resultados:
- Los resultados experimentales indican que es poco probable que el simple equilibrio metal-silicato a altas presiones y temperaturas explique las abundancias observadas de elementos siderófilos.
- El comportamiento de partición bajo condiciones de formación de núcleos simulados no soporta un modelo de equilibrio sencillo.
Conclusiones:
- La segregación del núcleo y el manto de la Tierra fue un proceso complejo.
- Los modelos simples de equilibrio son insuficientes para explicar la distribución de los elementos siderófilos entre el núcleo y el manto.
- Mecanismos alternativos o más complejos gobernaron la formación del núcleo y el manto de la Tierra.
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