Changes of the Earth's rotation axis owing to advection of mantle density heterogeneities

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6629, 1997, Pages 169-173

  Steinberger, Bernhard ^a,b   O'Connell, Richard J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOELASTICITY;

CALCULATIONS; GEODESY; GEOMAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATION; VISCOSITY;

GEOID MODELLING; LITHOSPHERIC PLATE MOTIONS; MANTLE DENSITY HETEROGENEITY; MANTLE FLOW FIELD; MASS REDISTRIBUTION; POLAR WANDER;

EARTH (PLANET);

ADVECTION; DENSITY; MANTLE; PLANETARY ROTATION; POLAR WANDER;

EID: 0030616060     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387169a0     Document Type: Article

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