Inner core differential rotation: Facts and artefacts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2103-2106

  Souriau, Annie ^a,c   Roudil, Pascal ^a,c   Moynot, Bernard ^a,b,c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b Bureau Gravimétrique International BGI   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ANISOTROPY; CORRELATION METHODS; SEISMOLOGY;

INNER CORE ANISOTROPY SYMMETRY AXIS; INNER CORE DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION;

TECTONICS; ROTATION;

INNER CORE; ROTATION;

ANALYSIS METHOD; ANISOTROPY AXIS; DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; INNER-CORE ROTATION; ROTATION AXIS; SYMMETRY AXIS; TRAVEL-TIME RESIDUALS;

EID: 0031200938     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01933     Document Type: Article

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