Super-computer Provides First Glimpse Of Earth's Early Magma Interior
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 21:37
in Earth & Climate
By using a super-computer to virtually squeeze and heat iron-bearing minerals under conditions that would have existed when the Earth crystallized from an ocean of magma to its solid form 4.5 billion years ago, geochemists have produced the first picture of how certain forms of iron were initially distributed in the solid Earth.