Impacts Impacted Mantle Chemistry (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Impacts Impacted Mantle Chemistry

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Earth experienced multiple large impacts; the high-pressure and -temperature conditions caused pockets of core and mantle partitioning that persist as chemically distinct today.

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Neil Bennett

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