Solidification of Earth's Primitive Mantle

Project Information

SEPtiM

Grant agreement ID: 101019965

DOI

10.3030/101019965

EC signature date 22 June 2021

Start date 1 September 2021

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 453 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 453 000,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

The effect of out-of-equilibrium outgassing on the cooling of planetary magma oceans

Author(s): Arthur Walbecq, Henri Samuel, Angela Limare
Published in: Icarus, Issue 434, 2025, Page(s) 116513, ISSN 0019-1035
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116513

Deep two-phase, hemispherical magma oceans on lava planets

Author(s): Charles-Édouard Boukaré, Nicolas B. Cowan, James Badro
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 936, 2022, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac8792

Solidification of Earth’s mantle led inevitably to a basal magma ocean

Author(s): Charles-Édouard Boukaré, James Badro, Henri Samuel
Published in: Nature, Issue 640, 2025, Page(s) 114-119, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08701-z

Investigating Magma Ocean Solidification on Earth Through Laser‐Heated Diamond Anvil Cell Experiments

Author(s): Farhang Nabiei, James Badro, Charles-Édouard Boukaré, Cécile Hébert, Marco Cantoni, Stephan Borensztajn, Nicolas Wehr, Philippe Gillet
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 48, 2021, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2021gl092446

Fully determined three‐dimensional velocity field in a divergence‐free convection experiment with rigid boundary conditions

Author(s): Arthur Walbecq, Henri Samuel, Angela Limare
Published in: Experiments in Fluids, Issue 65, 2024, ISSN 0723-4864
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-024-03807-y

The Thermal Conductivity of Bridgmanite at Lower Mantle Conditions Using a Multi‐Technique Approach

Author(s): Eric Edmund, Irina Chuvashova, Zuzana Konôpková, Rachel Husband, Cornelius Strohm, Karen Appel, Carsten Bähtz, Orianna Ball, Victorien Bouffetier, Kara Brugman, Khachiwan Buakor, Julien Chantel, Stella Chariton, Matthew Duff, Anand Dwivedi, Konstantin Glazyrin, S. M. A. Hosseini‐Saber, Nicolas Jaisle, Torsten Laurus, Xiang Li, Bernhard Masani, James McHardy, Malcolm McMahon, Sébastien Merkel
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 129, 2024, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024jb028823

Spin state and deep interior structure of Mars from InSight radio tracking

Author(s): Sébastien Le Maistre, Attilio Rivoldini, Alfonso Caldiero, Marie Yseboodt, Rose-Marie Baland, Mikael Beuthe, Tim Van Hoolst, Véronique Dehant, William M. Folkner, Dustin Buccino, Daniel Kahan, Jean-Charles Marty, Daniele Antonangeli, James Badro, Mélanie Drilleau, Alex Konopliv, Marie-Julie Péters, Ana-Catalina Plesa, Henri Samuel, Nicola Tosi, Mark Wieczorek, Philippe Lognonné, Mark Panning,
Published in: Nature, Issue 619, 2023, Page(s) 733-737, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06150-0

Nitrogen sequestration in the core at megabar pressure and implications for terrestrial accretion

Author(s): Dongyang Huang, Julien Siebert, Paolo Sossi, Edith Kubik, Guillaume Avice, Motohiko Murakami
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Issue 376, 2024, Page(s) 100-112, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2024.05.010

Martian core composition from experimental high-pressure metal-silicate phase equilibria

Author(s): Héloïse Gendre, James Badro, Nicolas Wehr, Stephan Borensztajn
Published in: Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Issue 21, 2022, Page(s) 42-46, ISSN 2410-339X
Publisher: European Association of Geochemistry
DOI: 10.7185/geochemlet.2216

Experiments reveal extreme water generation during planet formation

Author(s): F. Miozzi, A. Shahar, E. D. Young, J. Wang, A. Steele, S. Borensztajn, S. M. Vitale, E. S. Bullock, N. Wehr, J. Badro
Published in: Nature, Issue 648, 2025, Page(s) 551-555, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09816-z

Geophysical evidence for an enriched molten silicate layer above Mars’s core

Author(s): Henri Samuel, Mélanie Drilleau, Attilio Rivoldini, Zongbo Xu, Quancheng Huang, Raphaël F Garcia, Vedran Lekić, Jessica C E Irving, James Badro, Philippe H Lognonné, James D Connolly, Taichi Kawamura, Tamara Gudkova, William B Banerdt
Published in: Nature, Issue 622, 2023, Page(s) 712-717, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06601-8

Non-negative matrix factorization-aided phase unmixing and trace element quantification of STEM-EDXS data

Author(s): Hui Chen, Farhang Nabiei, James Badro, Duncan T.L. Alexander, Cécile Hébert
Published in: Ultramicroscopy, Issue 113981, 2024, ISSN 0304-3991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2024.113981

Planet Size Controls Fe Isotope Fractionation Between Mantle and Core

Author(s): Peng Ni, Anat Shahar, James Badro, Jing Yang, Wenli Bi, Jiyong Zhao, Michael Y. Hu, and Esen E. Alp
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 49, 2022, Page(s) 20, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2022gl098451

Coupled thermochemical evolution of the early Earth’s solid mantle and basal magma ocean: The role of melting and melt transport

Author(s): Laura H. Lark, Charles-Édouard Boukaré, James Badro, Henri Samuel
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Issue 680, 2026, Page(s) 119880, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2026.119880

The role of interior dynamics and differentiation on the surface and in the atmosphere of lava planets

Author(s): Charles-Édouard Boukaré, Daphné Lemasquerier, Nicolas B. Cowan, Henri Samuel, James Badro, Lisa Dang, Aurélien Falco, Sébastien Charnoz
Published in: Nature Astronomy, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 1511-1522, ISSN 2397-3366
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02617-4