Seismological evidence for mosaic structure of the surface of the Earth's inner core

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7041, 2005, Pages 483-487

  Krasnoshchekov, Dmitry N ^a   Kaazik, Peter B ^a   Ovtchinnikov, Vladimir M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAVITATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DENSITY JUMPS; EIGENFREQUENCIES; FREE-OSCILLATION EIGENFREQUENCIES; MOSAIC STRUCTURES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CORE (PLANETARY); INNER CORE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; EARTHQUAKE; ENERGY; GEOLOGY; GRAVITY; LIQUID; MODEL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 19544382193     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03613     Document Type: Article

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