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Dec 1971
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Nature, Volume 234, Issue 5330, pp. 463-465 (1971).
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ACCORDING to several theories1-3, the Earth was formed by accretion from a mixture of silicate particles and metal particles, something like those in chondritic meteorites. The accreting material may also have contained relatively small quantities of other components such as iron meteorites4 and carbonaceous chondrites5. Most advocates of these theories have maintained that accretion occurred relatively slowly (over a period of about 108 yr), so that the gravitational potential energy was efficiently radiated away and the Earth formed in a relatively cool and unmelted condition. Subsequently, heating by long lived radioactive elements occurred, leading to melting of the metal phase and segregation of the core. Differentiation and formation of the core may thus have occurred much later than the primary accretion of the Earth. It has even been argued that core formation might not yet have proceeded to completion1,6,7. On the other hand, alternative theories of origin of the Earth8-10,11 have maintained that much of the accretion of the Earth occurred in high temperature conditions and that core formation occurred either during accretion or very soon afterward. Clearly, an independent determination of the time interval ΔTc between accretion and core formation would have a crucial bearing on these contrasting theories.
Oversby Virginia M.
Ringwood A. E.
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