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A silicate dynamo in the early Earth

The Earth’s magnetic field has operated for at least 3.4 billion years, yet how the ancient field was produced is still unknown. The core in the early Earth was surrounded by a molten silicate layer, a basal magma ocean that may have survived for more than one billion years. Here we use density func...

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Autores principales: Stixrude, Lars, Scipioni, Roberto, Desjarlais, Michael P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7042358/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32098945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14773-4