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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
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Fig. 1

From: Impact-induced melting during accretion of the Earth

Fig. 1

Isostatic readjustment and lateral spreading of an initially spherical impact-induced melt pool (a) leading to global magma ocean formation (b). Due to the lower density of the melt (red) compared to the surrounding solid mantle (blue), the solid mantle rises isostatically beneath the melt pool (white arrows) by solid-state deformation and the melt spreads over the surface of the planetary embryo (black arrows).The proto-core is shown in yellow

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