Partial Melting on FeO-Rich Asteroids: Insights to the First Stage of Planetary Differentiation
The melting of planetesimals was a widespread geologic phenomenon taking place in the early inner solar system. Petrologic and geochemical evidence shows that this melting frequently resulted in full differentiation of planetary bodies into a core, mantle, and crust. The extent of this early plane...
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The University of Arizona.
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228118 |