Transition metal partitioning between lower mantle and core materials at 27 GPa

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Jan 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991georl..18...85o&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 18, Jan. 1991, p. 85-88.

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Chemical Fractionation, Earth Mantle, High Pressure, Perovskites, Phase Transformations, Abundance, Chemical Composition, Chemical Elements, Geochemistry, Iron, Olivine

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Partitioning of transition metals, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni between Mg-perovskite, magnesiowustite and metallic iron has been studied at 27 GPa and 1700-1900 C. V, Cr, and Mn are strongly enriched in Mg-perovskite and magnesiowustite, whereas Fe, Co, and Ni are strongly concentrated in metallic iron under the present experimental condition. Using these data on partitioning, models of core-mantle separation in the primordial earth were tested. Abundances of V, Cr, and Fe in the upper mantle are consistent with a model of the upper mantle formed by olivine accumulation and/or majorite fractionation in the primordial earth after the core segregation under the core-mantle equilibrium. However, depletion of Mn and overabundances of Co and Ni in the mantle remain unexplained by this model.

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