User:Cpnoll/Earth's outer core/Bibliography

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Final Topic Title: Light Elements in Earth's Outer Core

Three Main Points to Cover:


 * The exact compositons of light elements in Earth's Outer Core have been contentious, but the general view is that the Outer Core is approximately composed of Iron and 5% Nickel, 1.7% Sulfur, 0 to 4.0% Silicon, 0.8 to 5.3% Oxygen, 0.2% Carbon, and 0 to 0.26% Hydrogen by weight.
 * Understanding the concentration of light elements in the Earth's Outer Core gives us insight into Earth's accretion and core segmentation history.
 * The concentration of light elements in Earth's Outer Core has implications for the history of Earth's geodynamo and magnetic field.

Three Sources:


 * Buffett, Bruce A. "Earth's Core and the Geodynamo." Science, vol. 288, no. 5473, 2000, pp. 2007-2012, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.288.5473.2007, doi:10.1126/science.288.5473.2007.
 * Hirose, Kei, Bernard Wood, and Lidunka Vočadlo. "Light Elements in the Earth’s Core." Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, vol. 2, no. 9, 2021, pp. 645-658, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00203-6, doi:10.1038/s43017-021-00203-6.
 * Wood, Bernard J., Michael J. Walter, and Jonathan Wade. "Accretion of the Earth and Segregation of its Core." Nature, vol. 441, no. 7095, 2006, pp. 825-833, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04763, doi:10.1038/nature04763.

Three Potential Figures & Captions:


 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_formation.jpg
 * "An artist's illustration of what Earth might have looked like early in its formation."
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Differentiation_white.png
 * "A diagram of Earth's differentiation. The light elements sulfur, silicon, oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen may consitutue part of the Outer Core due to their abundance and ability to partition into liquid iron under certain conditions."
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dynamo_Theory_-_Outer_core_convection_and_magnetic_field_geenration.svg
 * "A diagram of Earth's geodynamo and magnetic field, which could have been driven in Earth's early history by the crystallization of SiO2 and MgO."