Waveform search for the innermost inner core

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 96-105

  Cormier, Vernon F ^a   Stroujkova, Anastasia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Weston Geophysical Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Body waves; Inner core; Modeling; Synthetic seismograms

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC CRYSTALS; INNER CORE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMOGRAMS;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELASTICITY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SOLIDIFICATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

BODY WAVE; INNER CORE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

EID: 22144465482     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.016     Document Type: Article

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