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La naturaleza isotópica del material de acrecentamiento de la Tierra a través del tiempo
1Origins Laboratory, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
Nature
|January 28, 2017
Resumen
La Tierra
Área de la Ciencia:
- Ciencias planetarias
- Geoquímica de los isótopos
- Cosmoquímica
Sus antecedentes:
- La Tierra se formó a partir de embriones planetarios de composición isotópica desconocida.
- La similitud isotópica Tierra-Luna desafía los modelos de acreción heterogénea.
- Los meteoritos de enstatita comparten similitudes isotópicas con la Tierra y la Luna.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para descifrar la naturaleza isotópica del material de acreción de la Tierra usando elementos con diferentes afinidades metálicas.
- Para conciliar la similitud isotópica Tierra-Luna con los modelos de acreción.
- Investigar el origen de los meteoritos enstatita y su relación con la formación de la Tierra.
Principales métodos:
- Mediciones isotópicas de alta precisión de la Tierra, la Luna y los meteoritos.
- Análisis de los elementos litófilos (O, Ca, Ti, Nd), moderadamente siderófilos (Cr, Ni, Mo) y muy siderófilos (Ru).
- Modelado de procesos de acreción y evolución isotópica.
Principales resultados:
- Los elementos con afinidades metálicas distintas revelan etapas de acreción distintas.
- Todos los elementos analizados indican una similitud isotópica con los meteoritos de enstatita.
- La acreción de la Tierra involucró una fracción significativa de material de tipo enstatita, especialmente más tarde en su formación.
Conclusiones:
- La Tierra y los meteoritos de enstatita se originaron en el mismo depósito isotópico.
- El impactador que formó la Luna probablemente tenía una composición isotópica similar a la de la Tierra.
- La evolución química divergió debido a los posteriores procesos de fraccionamiento nebular y planetario.
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