Experiments on convection in Earth's core tangent cylinder

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 212, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 119-134

  Aurnou, Jonathan ^a   Andreadis, Steven ^b   Zhu, Lixin ^b   Olson, Peter ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core convection; Geodynamo; Tangent cylinder; Thermal wind

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; CORE (PLANETARY); MODELING; OUTER CORE;

EID: 0037624081     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00237-1     Document Type: Article

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