Cooling of the Earth and core formation after the giant impact.
Kelvin calculated the age of the Earth to be about 24 million years by assuming conductive cooling from being fully molten to its current state. Although simplistic, his result is interesting in the context of the dramatic cooling that took place after the putative Moon-forming giant impact, which c...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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