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Morard, Guillaume
Institute of Mineralogy, Materials Physics and Cosmochemistry
in Cooperation with on an Cooperation-Score of 37%
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Publications (36/36 displayed)
- 2023Composition-dependent thermal equation of state of B2Fe-Si alloys at high pressurecitations
- 2023Denser glasses relax faster: Enhanced atomic mobility and anomalous particle displacement under in-situ high pressure compression of metallic glassescitations
- 2023MHz free electron laser x-ray diffraction and modeling of pulsed laser heated diamond anvil cellcitations
- 2023Local Structure and Density of Liquid Fe‐C‐S Alloys at Moon's Core Conditionscitations
- 2022Density determination of liquid iron-nickel-sulfur at high pressurecitations
- 2022Composition-dependent thermal equation of state of B2 Fe-Si alloys at high pressurecitations
- 2022Stratification in planetary cores by liquid immiscibility in Fe-S-Hcitations
- 2021Spin State of Iron in Dynamically Compressed Olivine Melt
- 2020In situ X-ray diffraction of silicate liquids and glasses under dynamic and static compression to megabar pressurescitations
- 2020Direct Observation of Shock‐Induced Disordering of Enstatite Below the Melting Temperaturecitations
- 2020TiC-MgO composite: an X-ray transparent and machinable heating element in a multi-anvil high pressure apparatuscitations
- 2020Eutectic melting of Fe-3 at% Si-4 at% C up to 200 GPa and implications for the Earth's corecitations
- 2018Solving Controversies on the Iron Phase Diagram Under High Pressurecitations
- 2018Effect of the fcc-hcp martensitic transition on the equation of state of solid krypton up to 140 GPacitations
- 2018Effect of the fcc-hcp martensitic transition on the equation of state of solid krypton up to 140 GPacitations
- 2017Crystallization of silicon dioxide and compositional evolution of the Earth's corecitations
- 2016Dynamic X-ray diffraction observation of shocked solid iron up to 170 GPacitations
- 2016Polyamorphism of a Ce-based bulk metallic glass by high-pressure and high-temperature density measurementscitations
- 2016The phase diagram of NiSi under the conditions of small planetary interiorscitations
- 2015Melting of MORB at core–mantle boundarycitations
- 2014A long-lived lunar dynamo powered by core crystallizationcitations
- 2014Density measurements and structural properties of liquid and amorphous metals under high pressurecitations
- 2014The melting curve of Ni to 1 Mbarcitations
- 2013Mechanism and kinetics of the a-b transition in San Carlos olivine Mg1.8Fe0.2SiO4citations
- 2013Mechanism and kinetics of the a-b transition in San Carlos olivine Mg1.8Fe0.2SiO4citations
- 2013High-pressure, high-temperature deformation of CaGeO3 (perovskite)±MgO aggregates: implications for multi-phase rheology of the lower mantlecitations
- 2013Density measurements and structural properties of liquid and amorphous metals under high pressure studied by in situ X-ray scattering".
- 2013Melting of Iron at Earth's Inner Core Boundary Based on Fast X-ray Diffractioncitations
- 2011In situ high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray microtomographic imaging during large deformation: A new technique for studying mechanical behavior of multiphase compositescitations
- 2011In situ high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray microtomographic imaging during large deformation: A new technique for studying mechanical behavior of multiphase compositescitations
- 2010Composition of the Earth's inner core from high-pressure sound velocity measurements in Fe–Ni–Si alloyscitations
- 2010Composition of the Earth's inner core from high-pressure sound velocity measurements in Fe–Ni–Si alloyscitations
- 2009Microstructural investigation of melting in laser-shocked recovered iron foils
- 2008In situ structural investigation of Fe-S-Si immiscible liquid system and evolution of Fe-S bond properties with pressurecitations
- 2008In situ determination of Fe-Fe3S phase diagram and liquid structural properties up to 65 GPacitations
- 2007Structure of eutectic Fe–FeS melts to pressures up to 17 GPa: Implications for planetary corescitations
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Crystallization of silicon dioxide and compositional evolution of the Earth's core
Abstract
The Earth's core is about ten per cent less dense than pure iron (Fe), suggesting that it contains light elements as well as iron. Modelling of core formation at high pressure (around 40-60 gigapascals) and high temperature (about 3,500 kelvin) in a deep magma ocean(1-5) predicts that both silicon (Si) and oxygen (O) are among the impurities in the liquid outer core(6-9). However, only the binary systems Fe-Si and Fe-O have been studied in detail at high pressures, and little is known about the compositional evolution of the Fe-Si-O ternary alloy under core conditions. Here we performed melting experiments on liquid Fe-Si-O alloy at core pressures in a laser-heated diamond-anvil cell. Our results demonstrate that the liquidus field of silicon dioxide (SiO2) is unexpectedly wide at the iron-rich portion of the Fe-Si-O ternary, such that an initial Fe-Si-O core crystallizes SiO2 as it cools. If crystallization proceeds on top of the core, the buoyancy released should have been more than sufficient to power core convection and a dynamo, in spite of high thermal conductivity(10,11), from as early on as the Hadean eon(12). SiO2 saturation also sets limits on silicon and oxygen concentrations in the present-day outer core.