Fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth's inner core

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6775, 2000, Pages 273-275

  Vidale, John E ^a,b   Earle, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE (PLANETARY); HETEROGENEITY; INNER CORE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034673705     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35005059     Document Type: Article

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