Nature
The potential for bridgmanite megacrysts to drive magma ocean segregation.
Jie Deng, Junwei Hu, Yidi Shi, Jina Lee, Haiyang Niu, Lars Stixrude
Published: 202610.1038/s41586-025-10063-5
Abstract
Earth's early mantle probably existed as a deep, vigorously convecting magma ocean, and its solidification is considered central to the long-term chemical and dynamical evolution of the planet. Yet a notable uncertainty is the grain size of bridgmani…
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