Correlation of Earth's magnetic field with lower mantle thermal and seismic structure

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 162, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 256-260

  Gubbins, David ^a   Willis, Ashley P ^a   Sreenivasan, Binod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core processes; Geodynamo; Time averaged geomagnetic field

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; TECTONICS;

CORE PROCESS; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MANTLE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HEAT FLUX; INNER CORE; LOWER MANTLE; MORPHOLOGY; S-WAVE; THERMAL STRUCTURE;

CANADA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIBERIA;

EID: 34250788863     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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