Torsional oscillations and the magnetic field within the Earth's core

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6644, 1997, Pages 760-763

  Zatman, Stephen ^a   Bloxham, Jeremy ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE; DYNAMO THEORY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; TORSIONAL OSCILLATION;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; FLOW KINETICS; GEOLOGY; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION;

EID: 0030858137     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41987     Document Type: Article

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