Anisotropy of the earth's inner core

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 297-313

  Song, Xiaodong ^a,b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; POLES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; EARTH'S INNER CORES; EQUATORIAL PLANES; INNER CORE; IRON CRYSTALS; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAVE SPEED;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 0001647678     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RG01285     Document Type: Article

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