Rapidly changing flows in the Earth's core

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 390-394

  Olsen, Nils ^a   Mandea, Mioara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

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EID: 60749092648     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo203     Document Type: Article

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