Time-averaged paleomagnetic field and secular variation: Predictions from dynamo solutions based on lower mantle seismic tomography

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 169, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 194-203

  Davies, Christopher J ^a   Gubbins, David ^a   Willis, Ashley P ^b   Jimack, Peter K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamo; Geomagnetism; Paleomagnetic secular variation; Paleomagnetic time average

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY HEAT FLUX; DYNAMO; GEOMAGNETISM; LOWER MANTLE; PALEOMAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION; PALEOMAGNETIC TIME AVERAGE; SECULAR VARIATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TIME-AVERAGED;

DC GENERATORS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; LOWER MANTLE; PALEOMAGNETISM; SECULAR VARIATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MASCARENE ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; REUNION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52949150760     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.07.021     Document Type: Article

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