Detection of a gravitational oscillation in length-of-day

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 383-389

  Mound, Jon E ^a   Buffett, Bruce A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Core mantle coupling; Inner core; Length of day; Mantle structure

Indexed keywords

CORE-MANTLE COUPLING; GRAVITATIONAL COUPLING; INNER CORE; LENGTH-OF-DAY; MANTLE STRUCTURE;

DEFORMATION; GRAVITY WAVES; OSCILLATIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; VISCOSITY;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

DAY LENGTH; EARTH ROTATION; GRAVITY; OSCILLATION;

EID: 33644884957     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.01.043     Document Type: Article

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