Mantle-driven geodynamo features-effects of post-Perovskite phase transition

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1255-1268

  Amit, Hagay ^a   Choblet, Gaël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Core flow; Geodynamo; Geomagnetic field; Inner core; Mantle tomography; Post perovskite

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HEAT FLUX; INNER CORE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; S-WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 76549126366     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352978     Document Type: Article

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