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Bernard J. Wood is a British geochemist and experimental petrologist associated with the study of minerals and materials under the high pressures and temperatures found inside planets. His research combines laboratory experiments, mineral analysis, and theory to investigate mantle composition, mineral thermodynamics, melting, and the partitioning of elements between the mantle and core. The work is relevant to planetary scientists and geologists studying Earth's interior and core formation.
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What does Bernard J. Wood study in experimental petrology?
Bernard J. Wood recreates high-pressure and high-temperature conditions to study minerals, melts, and processes inside Earth. His experiments are combined with microanalysis and thermodynamic theory at the University of Oxford.
How did Bernard Wood research the formation of Earth's core?
Wood studied how elements partition between metallic liquid and silicate material during planetary differentiation. Those metal-silicate experiments help explain how an iron-rich core separated from Earth's silicate mantle.
What mantle properties did Bernard J. Wood help calculate?
His work covers mineral thermodynamics, oxygen fugacity, mantle phase relations, melting, and element partitioning between crystals and melts. These properties help researchers interpret seismic boundaries and the chemical evolution of magmas.
Where is Bernard J. Wood based?
Wood is a professor of mineralogy and senior research fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. He has been based at Oxford since 2007, where he developed an experimental petrology laboratory.
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