The effect of thermal core-mantle interactions on the palaeomagnetic secular variation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 1171-1179

  Bloxham, Jeremy ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle interactions; Geodynamo; Geomagnetism; Secular variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346743197     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0579     Document Type: Article

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