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 …

Magma ocean, water, and the early atmosphere of Venus

A Salvador, G Avice, D Breuer, C Gillmann… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
The current state and surface conditions of the Earth and its twin planet Venus are drastically
different. Whether these differences are directly inherited from the earliest stages of …

Oxygen isotope evidence from Ryugu samples for early water delivery to Earth by CI chondrites

RC Greenwood, IA Franchi, R Findlay, JA Malley… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The delivery of water to the inner Solar System, including Earth, is still a debated topic. A
preferential role for hydrated asteroids in this process is supported by isotopic …

Retention of water in terrestrial magma oceans and carbon-rich early atmospheres

DJ Bower, K Hakim, PA Sossi… - The planetary science …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Massive steam and CO 2 atmospheres have been proposed for magma ocean outgassing of
Earth and terrestrial planets. Yet formation of such atmospheres depends on volatile …

Core origin of seismic velocity anomalies at Earth's core–mantle boundary

S Fu, S Chariton, VB Prakapenka, SH Shim - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Seismic studies have found fine-scale anomalies at the core–mantle boundary (CMB), such
as ultralow velocity zones (ULVZs), and the core rigidity zone,. ULVZs have been attributed …

The Long-Term Evolution of the Atmosphere of Venus: Processes and Feedback Mechanisms: Interior-Exterior Exchanges

C Gillmann, MJ Way, G Avice, D Breuer… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
This work reviews the long-term evolution of the atmosphere of Venus, and modulation of its
composition by interior/exterior cycling. The formation and evolution of Venus's atmosphere …

Chemical equilibrium between cores, mantles, and atmospheres of super-earths and sub-neptunes and implications for their compositions, interiors, and evolution

HE Schlichting, ED Young - The Planetary Science Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the equilibrium chemistry between molten metal and silicate and a hydrogen-
rich envelope using 18 independent reactions among 25 phase components for sub …

Growth and evolution of secondary volcanic atmospheres: I. Identifying the geological character of hot rocky planets

P Liggins, S Jordan, PB Rimmer… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The geology of Earth and super‐Earth sized planets will, in many cases, only be observable
via their atmospheres. Here, we investigate secondary volcanic atmospheres as a key base …

A framework for the origin and deep cycles of volatiles in rocky exoplanets

R Dasgupta, D Pathak… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Since the first discovery of planets in another solar system of our galaxy in the early 90s and
the discovery of 51 Pegassi b, a Jovian-type planet around a Sun-like star in 1995 (Mayor …

A hydrogen-enriched layer in the topmost outer core sourced from deeply subducted water

T Kim, JG O'Rourke, J Lee, S Chariton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Earth's core–mantle boundary presents a dramatic change in materials, from silicate to
metal. While little is known about chemical interactions between them, a thin layer with a …