Mantle regulation of core cooling: A geodynamo without core radioactivity?

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 160, Issue 3-5, 2007, Pages 215-229

  Davies, Geoffrey F ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Core radioactivity; Earth's core; Geodynamo; Inner core; Mantle plume; Thermal evolution

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; GEOCHEMISTRY; RADIOACTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CORE COOLING; CORE RADIOACTIVITY; GEODYNAMO; INNER CORE; MANTLE PLUME; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ENTROPY; GEODYNAMO; INNER CORE; MANTLE PLUME; RADIOACTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 33846618740     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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