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Melting and mixing states of the Earth’s mantle after the Moon-forming impact
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“however, numerical simulations of a giant impact thought to have formed the Earth-Moon system suggests that over 50 vol% of the Earth's mantle could have melted, indicating a magma ocean to at least 600 km depth”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nakajima, M., & Stevenson, D. J.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Nakajima, Miki
- Venue
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-10
- Volume
- 427
- Pages
- 286-295
- ISSN
- 0012-821X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1963088560
- Cited by
- 215
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 17 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 10.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- NASA (NNX14AP26H)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Space and Planetary Science › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- Moon formation, giant impacts, Earth's mantle, mantle mixing, mantle melting, proto-Earth, impactor size, mantle heterogeneity, Rankine-Hugoniot equations, entropy increase, equation of state, forsterite, smoothed particle hydrodynamics
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