IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v517y2015i7535d10.1038_nature14114.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Long-lived magnetism from solidification-driven convection on the pallasite parent body

Author

Listed:
  • James F. J. Bryson

    (University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK)

  • Claire I. O. Nichols

    (University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK)

  • Julia Herrero-Albillos

    (Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Carretera de Huesca s/n, E-50090 Zaragoza, Spain
    Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, CSIC—Universidad de Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 12, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain)

  • Florian Kronast

    (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany)

  • Takeshi Kasama

    (Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)

  • Hossein Alimadadi

    (Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark)

  • Gerrit van der Laan

    (Diamond Light Source, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, UK)

  • Francis Nimmo

    (University of California)

  • Richard J. Harrison

    (University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK)

Abstract

Nanomagnetic imaging has been used to obtain a palaeomagnetic time series of two pallasite meteorites, revealing that their convection was driven by core solidification, which would have caused long-lived magnetic fields in the cores of early Solar System planetary bodies.

Suggested Citation

  • James F. J. Bryson & Claire I. O. Nichols & Julia Herrero-Albillos & Florian Kronast & Takeshi Kasama & Hossein Alimadadi & Gerrit van der Laan & Francis Nimmo & Richard J. Harrison, 2015. "Long-lived magnetism from solidification-driven convection on the pallasite parent body," Nature, Nature, vol. 517(7535), pages 472-475, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:517:y:2015:i:7535:d:10.1038_nature14114
    DOI: 10.1038/nature14114
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14114
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature14114?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:517:y:2015:i:7535:d:10.1038_nature14114. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.