Venus: A Thick Basal Magma Ocean May Exist Today

Thermal and magnetic evolution of a crystallizing basal magma ocean in Earth's mantle

(2020) Nicolas A. Blanc et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Secondary magnetite in ancient zircon precludes analysis of a Hadean geodynamo

(2019) Fengzai Tang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Detectability of Remanent Magnetism in the Crust of Venus

(2019) J.G. O'Rourke et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Melt–crystal density crossover in a deep magma ocean

(2019) Razvan Caracas et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

FeO Content of Earth’s Liquid Core

(2019) Monica Pozzo et al.   Physical Review X

Electronic conductivity of solid and liquid (Mg, Fe)O computed from first principles

(2018) E. Holmström et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

On the thermo-chemical origin of the stratified region at the top of the Earth’s core

(2018) Takashi Nakagawa   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Crystallization of a compositionally stratified basal magma ocean

(2018) Matthieu Laneuville et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Venus Interior Structure and Dynamics

(2018) Suzanne E. Smrekar et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Water Partitioning in Planetary Embryos and Protoplanets with Magma Oceans

(2018) M. Ikoma et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Prospects for an ancient dynamo and modern crustal remanent magnetism on Venus

(2018) Joseph G. O'Rourke et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Electrical conductivity and magnetic dynamos in magma oceans of Super-Earths

(2018) François Soubiran et al.   Nature Communications

Magnesium Partitioning Between Earth's Mantle and Core and its Potential to Drive an Early Exsolution Geodynamo

(2018) James Badro et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Electrical conductivity of SiO2at extreme conditions and planetary dynamos

(2017) Roberto Scipioni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Compositionally-distinct ultra-low velocity zones on Earth’s core-mantle boundary

(2017) Mingming Li et al.   Nature Communications

Tidal constraints on the interior of Venus

(2017) C. Dumoulin et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Primordial metallic melt in the deep mantle

(2016) Zhou Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system?

(2016) M. J. Way et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Effect of a single large impact on the coupled atmosphere-interior evolution of Venus

(2016) Cédric Gillmann et al.   ICARUS

Powering Earth’s dynamo with magnesium precipitation from the core

(2016) Joseph G. O’Rourke et al.   NATURE

Direct measurement of thermal conductivity in solid iron at planetary core conditions

(2016) Zuzana Konôpková et al.   NATURE

Experimental determination of the electrical resistivity of iron at Earth’s core conditions

(2016) Kenji Ohta et al.   NATURE

Melting and mixing states of the Earth's mantle after the Moon-forming impact

(2015) Miki Nakajima et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Pervasive remagnetization of detrital zircon host rocks in the Jack Hills, Western Australia and implications for records of the early geodynamo

(2015) Benjamin P. Weiss et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Influence of plate tectonic mode on the coupled thermochemical evolution of Earth's mantle and core

(2015) Takashi Nakagawa et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Thermal evolution of Venus with argon degassing

(2015) Joseph G. O’Rourke et al.   ICARUS

Accretion and differentiation of the terrestrial planets with implications for the compositions of early-formed Solar System bodies and accretion of water

(2015) D.C. Rubie et al.   ICARUS

Thermal evolution of the core with a high thermal conductivity

(2015) Stéphane Labrosse   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Outer core compositional layering and constraints on core liquid transport properties

(2014) George Helffrich   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

On the thermal and magnetic histories of Earth and Venus: Influences of melting, radioactivity, and conductivity

(2014) P. Driscoll et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Atmosphere/mantle coupling and feedbacks on Venus

(2014) Cedric Gillmann et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

Composition and State of the Core

(2013) Kei Hirose et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Implications of a long-lived basal magma ocean in generating Earth's ancient magnetic field

(2013) L. B. Ziegler et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Divergent evolution of Earth and Venus: Influence of degassing, tectonics, and magnetic fields

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Emergence of two types of terrestrial planet on solidification of magma ocean

(2013) Keiko Hamano et al.   NATURE

Magma Oceans in the Inner Solar System

(2012) Linda T. Elkins-Tanton   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Lattice thermal conductivity of MgSiO3 perovskite and post-perovskite at the core–mantle boundary

(2012) Kenji Ohta et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Numerical modelling of convection interacting with a melting and solidification front: Application to the thermal evolution of the basal magma ocean

(2012) M. Ulvrová et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

The stratified layer at the core–mantle boundary caused by barodiffusion of oxygen, sulphur and silicon

(2012) D. Gubbins et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Forming a Moon with an Earth-like Composition via a Giant Impact

(2012) R. M. Canup   SCIENCE

Making the Moon from a Fast-Spinning Earth: A Giant Impact Followed by Resonant Despinning

(2012) M. Cuk et al.   SCIENCE

Influence of initial CMB temperature and other parameters on the thermal evolution of Earth's core resulting from thermochemical spherical mantle convection

(2010) Takashi Nakagawa et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Stratification of the top of the core due to chemical interactions with the mantle

(2010) Bruce A. Buffett et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A consistent picture of early hydrodynamic escape of Venus atmosphere explaining present Ne and Ar isotopic ratios and low oxygen atmospheric content

(2009) Cédric Gillmann et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Modelling the palaeo-evolution of the geodynamo

(2009) Julien Aubert et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Dynamo Scaling Laws and Applications to the Planets

(2009) U. R. Christensen   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Urey ratio and the structure and evolution of Earth's mantle

(2008) Jun Korenaga   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Core–mantle boundary heat flow

(2007) Thorne Lay et al.   Nature Geoscience