Light elements in the Earth's core

K Hirose, B Wood, L Vočadlo - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Constraining the core's composition is essential for understanding Earth accretion, core
formation and the sustainment of Earth's magnetic field. Earth's outer and inner core exhibit …

The supercontinent cycle

RN Mitchell, N Zhang, J Salminen, Y Liu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Supercontinents signify self-organization in plate tectonics. Over the past~ 2 billion years,
three major supercontinents have been identified, with increasing age: Pangaea, Rodinia …

Epitaxial growth of a monolayer WSe2-MoS2 lateral pn junction with an atomically sharp interface

MY Li, Y Shi, CC Cheng, LS Lu, YC Lin, HL Tang… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) such as molybdenum sulfide
MoS2 and tungsten sulfide WSe2 have potential applications in electronics because they …

Continent-sized anomalous zones with low seismic velocity at the base of Earth's mantle

EJ Garnero, AK McNamara, SH Shim - Nature Geoscience, 2016 - nature.com
Seismic images of Earth's interior reveal two massive anomalous zones at the base of the
mantle, above the core, where seismic waves travel slowly. The mantle materials that …

Sustaining Earth's magnetic dynamo

M Landeau, A Fournier, HC Nataf, D Cébron… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Earth's magnetic field is generated by fluid motions in the outer core. This geodynamo has
operated for over 3.4 billion years. However, the mechanism that has sustained the …

Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth's basal mantle anomalies

Q Yuan, M Li, SJ Desch, B Ko, H Deng, EJ Garnero… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Seismic images of Earth's interior have revealed two continent-sized anomalies with low
seismic velocities, known as the large low-velocity provinces (LLVPs), in the lowermost …

Influences on exchange processes: Buyers' preconceptions of a seller's trustworthiness and bargaining toughness

PH Schurr, JL Ozanne - Journal of consumer research, 1985 - academic.oup.com
Exchange theories posit that trust has an important and favorable influence on dyadic
interactions. This paper examines the notion that trust plays a key role in making a seller's …

Magma oceans in the inner solar system

LT Elkins-Tanton - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Theory and observations point to the occurrence of magma ponds or oceans in the early
evolution of terrestrial planets and in many early-accreting planetesimals. The apparent …

Water in the Earth's interior: distribution and origin

AH Peslier, M Schönbächler, H Busemann… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
The concentration and distribution of water in the Earth has influenced its evolution
throughout its history. Even at the trace levels contained in the planet's deep interior (mantle …

Globally distributed subducted materials along the Earth's core-mantle boundary: Implications for ultralow velocity zones

SE Hansen, EJ Garnero, M Li, SH Shim, S Rost - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Ultralow velocity zones (ULVZs) are the most anomalous structures within the Earth's
interior; however, given the wide range of associated characteristics (thickness and …