Nitrogen isotope evidence for Earth’s heterogeneous accretion of volatiles

How and when Earth acquired its major volatiles N-C-H-S remains unclear. Here the authors show that Earth may have acquired its major volatiles from both reduced and oxidized impactors before and during the Moon-forming giant impact.

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autors principals: Lanlan Shi, Wenhua Lu, Takanori Kagoshima, Yuji Sano, Zenghao Gao, Zhixue Du, Yun Liu, Yingwei Fei, Yuan Li
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Publicat: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01
Col·lecció:Nature Communications
Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32516-5

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