Estimating lateral structure in the earth's outer core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1659-1662

  Piersanti, Antonio ^a   Boschi, Lapo ^b   Dziewonski, Adam M ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GRAVITATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY;

LATERAL STRUCTURES; TOPOGRAPHY;

GEOPHYSICS;

CORE (PLANETARY); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DENSITY; OUTER CORE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035870397     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL008517     Document Type: Article

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