Composition and temperature of the earth's core constrained by combining ab initio calculations and seismic data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 195, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 91-98

  Alfe D ^a   Gillan, M J ^a   Price, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Core; Seismology; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; INNER CORE; OUTER CORE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SIMULATION;

EID: 0036190787     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00568-4     Document Type: Article

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