Experimental determination of the electrical resistivity of iron at Earth’s core conditions

Kenji Ohta (), Yasuhiro Kuwayama, Kei Hirose, Katsuya Shimizu and Yasuo Ohishi
Additional contact information
Kenji Ohta: Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama
Yasuhiro Kuwayama: Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-cho
Kei Hirose: Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama
Katsuya Shimizu: Center for Science and Technology under Extreme Conditions, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama
Yasuo Ohishi: Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Koto

Nature, 2016, vol. 534, issue 7605, 95-98

Abstract: Using a laser-heated diamond-anvil cell to measure the electrical resistivity of iron under the high temperature and pressure conditions of the Earth’s core yields a value that means Earth’s core has high thermal conductivity, suggesting that its inner core is less than 0.7 billion years old, much younger than thought.

Date: 2016
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17957 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:534:y:2016:i:7605:d:10.1038_nature17957

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature17957

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().