Oxygen to the core of Earth
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 17:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists have discovered that Earth's core formed under more oxidizing condition's than previously proposed. While scientists know that Earth accreted from some mixture of meteoritic material, there is no simple way to quantify precisely the proportions of these various materials. The new research defines how various materials may have been distributed and transported in the early solar system.