Lab Mimicry of Mantle-Core Separation (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Lab Mimicry of Mantle-Core Separation

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The diamond anvil cell recreated the conditions of early Earth as the material that's analogous to the core -- inner dashed line -- separates from the material that's analogous to the magma ocean in the mantle--the outer dashed line. The scale bar in the left panel is 10 microns.

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Colin Jackson.

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