Magma ocean fractional crystallization and cumulate overturn in terrestrial planets: Implications for Mars

By L. Elkins‐Tanton, E. Parmentier, P. C. Hess. 2003

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. L. Elkins‐Tanton
2. F. Nimmo
3. Shijie Zhong
4. J. Roberts
5. Maria T. Zuber
6. E. Parmentier
7. P. C. Hess
8. B. Weiss

In Atmospheric Science

1. L. Elkins‐Tanton
2. E. Parmentier
3. F. Nimmo
4. P. C. Hess
5. Maria T. Zuber
6. B. Weiss
7. Shijie Zhong
8. J. Roberts

Citations in the corpus

• Magma oceans in the inner solar system (2012, background): “Thus, garnet may settle while olivine and pyroxene remain entrained, creating additional compositional differentiation (Elkins-Tanton et al. 2003).”
• The bulk composition of Mars (2013, unknown): “An example of the complexity in ust modeling magma ocean crystallization and cumulate overturn an be found in Elkins-Tanton et al. (2003, 2005).”
• Crustal evolution and the temporality of anorthosites (2017, background): “…the likelihood of a hydrous melt composition that would suppress plagioclase crystallization, and the possibility of sequestration of Al in dense majorite and garnet phases, reducing the availability of Al for later plagioclase formation (Elkins-Tanton et al., 2003, 2005; Agee and Draper, 2004).”
• Possible formation of ancient crust on Mars through magma ocean processes (2005, methodology): “A gravitationally unstable stratigraphy will overturn via Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities to a stable profile with intrinsically densest materials at the bottom, on timescales that depend on the rate of thermally activated creep [Solomatov, 2000; Elkins-Tanton et al., 2003a].”
• Linked magma ocean solidification and atmospheric growth for Earth and Mars (2008, methodology): “This step produces cumulates with density that increases with radius, and are therefore gravitationally unstable to overturn (Elkins-Tanton et al., 2003, 2005b).”
• Temperatures, Heat, and Energy in the Mantle of the Earth (2007, background): “The radial temperature profile is tied to the solidus which is steeper than the isentropic profile, which leads to convective overturn in the solid layer (Elkins-Tanton et al., 2003).”
• Bulk composition and early differentiation of Mars (2007, methodology): “ Elkins-Tanton et al. [2003] predict that FeO increased with depth in Mars after overturn, but the upper mantle would still have low Al2O3.”
• Global investigation of olivine on Mars: Insights into crust and mantle compositions (2013, background): “The enrichment in olivine may reflect the composition of the upper mantle/lower crust proposed to be olivine-rich [Elkins-Tanton et al., 2003, 2005].”
• Degree-1 convection in the Martian mantle and the origin of the hemispheric dichotomy (2006, background): “The hypothesis of mantle overturn following solidification of an early magma ocean that leads to crustal dichotomy [Elkins-Tanton et al., 2003, 2005] is similar to a model proposed originally for lunar mare basalts [Parmentier et al., 2002].”
• Chondrites as samples of differentiated planetesimals (2009, methodology): “(1995), using partial molar volumes and techniques from Kress and Carmichael (1991) 22 and Lange and Carmichael (1987); also see previous applications of this technique in 23 Elkins-Tanton et al. (2003).”
• The lunar magma ocean: Reconciling the solidification process with lunar petrology and geochronology (2011, background): “Material is assumed to retain its solidus temperature as crystallization proceeds (Elkins-Tanton et al., 2003).”
• EARLY CRUSTAL EVOLUTION OF MARS 1 (2005, background): “EARLY MARTIAN CRUSTAL EVOLUTION 3.17 Elkins-Tanton et al. (2003) have shown that a deep (>600 km) Martian magma ocean will generate melts depleted in Al (as observed in Martian meteorites) due to sinking of Al-rich garnet.”