Core-mantle coupling including a viscoelastic inner core: An application to the axial rotation associated with the Quaternary glacial cycles

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 289-315

  Nakada, Masao ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Core mantle coupling; Earth's rotation; Glacial rebound; Mantle viscosity; Sea level variation

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; CYCLICITY; EARTH ROTATION; GLACIOISOSTASY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 0142058865     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(03)00151-1     Document Type: Article

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