Inner core rotation rate from small-scale heterogeneity and time- varying travel times

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5341, 1997, Pages 1284-1288

  Creager, Kenneth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE (INNER); ROTATION RATE; SEISMIC WAVE; TRAVEL TIME;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0030695289     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5341.1284     Document Type: Article

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