Kelvin's theorem applied to the Earth's core

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 452, Issue 1953, 1996, Pages 2195-2201

  Jackson, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; KELVIN'S THEOREM;

EID: 0030423860     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1996.0116     Document Type: Article

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