Formation of the stratified ocean of the core

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 650-656

  Braginsky, Stanislav I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Earth core; Stably stratified layer

Indexed keywords

CORE MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTH CORE; STABLY STRATIFIED LAYER;

DIFFUSION; EARTH (PLANET); TURBULENCE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CORE (PLANETARY); CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; STRATIFIED FLUID;

EID: 33644878849     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.029     Document Type: Article

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