Measurements of electric anisotropy due to solidification texturing and the implications for the Earth's inner core

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6646, 1997, Pages 60-63

  Bergman, Michael I ^a,b  

^a Simon's Rock College   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVE; CRYSTAL GROWTH; INNER CORE; IRON; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SOLIDIFICATION TEXTURING;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; GEOLOGY; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030885969     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37962     Document Type: Article

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