The inner core and the surface heat flow as clues to estimating the initial temperature of the Earth's core

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 121, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 103-137

  Yukutake, Takesi ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooling Earth; Earth core; Initial temperature; Surface heat flow

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); EARLY EARTH; HEAT FLOW; INNER CORE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 0033803314     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(00)00163-1     Document Type: Article

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