Localized temporal change of the earth's inner core boundary

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5801, 2006, Pages 967-970

  Wen, Lianxing ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

COMPRESSIONAL WAVES; EARTH'S INNER CORE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC STATIONS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

EARTH; EARTHQUAKE; INNER CORE; SEISMIC WAVE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; KYRGYZSTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

AFRICA; ANTARCTICA; ASIA; EURASIA; KYRGYZSTAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS; WEST ASIA;

EID: 33750980401     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131692     Document Type: Article

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28. I thank two anonymous reviewers for constructive reviews and W.-C Yu for assistance in collecting the seismic data. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation.