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The most widely supported class of hypotheses of the Earth’s origin during the period 1950–1970 maintained that the Earth accreted from an intimate mixture of silicate particles and metal particles, generally resembling chondritic meteorites (e.g., Urey, 1952, 1958, 1962a; Kuiper, 1952; Vinogradov, 1961; Elsasser, 1963; Birch, 1965). The chondritic material was assumed to have been formed in the solar nebula by a complex series of chemical and physical processes that occurred prior to the accretion of planets.
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Ringwood, A.E. (1979). Early Theories of Accretion of the Earth. In: Origin of the Earth and Moon. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6167-4_7
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