Formation of the stratified ocean of the core: A ternary alloy model

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 507-512

  Braginsky, Stanislav I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barodiffusion; Earth core; Stably stratified layer; Ternary alloy

Indexed keywords

BARODIFFUSION; EARTH CORE; STABLY STRATIFIED LAYER;

BINARY ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; IRON ALLOYS; SOLUTIONS; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

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

EID: 33845970895     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.014     Document Type: Article

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