A laboratory model for convection in Earth's core driven by a thermally heterogeneous mantle

Science

Volumn 286, Issue 5444, 1999, Pages 1547-1549

  Sumita, Ikuro ^a   Olson, Peter ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CORE (PLANETARY);

ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; HEAT TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033584794     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5444.1547     Document Type: Article

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31. Supported by Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists (I.S.) and the Geophysics Program of NSF.