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Article Dans Une Revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Année : 2010

Coupled 182W-142Nd constraint for early Earth differentiation

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Recent high precision (142)Nd isotope measurements showed that global silicate differentiation may have occurred as early as 30-75 Myr after the Solar System formation [Bennett V, et al. (2007) Science 318:1907-1910]. This time scale is almost contemporaneous with Earth's core formation at approximately 30 Myr [Yin Q, et al. (2002) Nature 418:949-952]. The (182)Hf-(182)W system provides a powerful complement to the (142)Nd results for early silicate differentiation, because both core formation and silicate differentiation fractionate Hf from W. Here we show that eleven terrestrial samples from diverse tectonic settings, including five early Archean samples from Isua, Greenland, of which three have been previously shown with (142)Nd anomalies, all have a homogeneous W isotopic composition, which is approximately 2epsilon-unit more radiogenic than the chondritic value. By using a 3-stage model calculation that describes the isotopic evolution in chondritic reservoir and core segregation, as well as silicate differentiation, we show that the W isotopic composition of terrestrial samples provides the most stringent time constraint for early core formation (27.5-38 Myr) followed by early terrestrial silicate differentiation (38-75 Myr) that is consistent with the terrestrial (142)Nd anomalies.

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hal-00515962 , version 1 (08-09-2010)

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Frédéric Moynier, Qing-Zhu Yin, Keita Irisawa, Maud Boyet, Benjamin Jacobsen, et al.. Coupled 182W-142Nd constraint for early Earth differentiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010, 107 (24), pp.10810-10814. ⟨10.1073/pnas.0913605107⟩. ⟨hal-00515962⟩
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