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The fate of water within Earth and super-Earths and implications for plate tectonics

The Earth is likely to have acquired most of its water during accretion. Internal heat of planetesimals by short-lived radioisotopes would have caused some water loss, but impacts into planetesimals were insufficiently energetic to produce further drying. Water is thought to be critical for the deve...

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Autores principales: Tikoo, Sonia M., Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5394257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28416729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0394