Precise seismic-wave velocity atop Earth's core: No evidence for outer-core stratification

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 59-65

  Alexandrakis, Catherine ^a   Eaton, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical transfer function; Outer core; SmKS phase; Velocity model; Whispering gallery mode

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEPTH GRADIENT; EARTH'S CORE; ELEMENT COMPOSITIONS; EMPIRICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; FRACTION OF LIGHT; GEODYNAMO; LIGHT MATERIALS; NEW MODEL; OUTER CORE; PRELIMINARY REFERENCE EARTH MODELS; REFERENCE MODELS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; THERMAL REGIMES; TRANSFER FUNCTION METHOD; VELOCITY MODEL; VELOCITY PROFILES; WAVE VELOCITY; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; MODELS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARRIVAL TIME; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OUTER CORE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE; STRATIFICATION; TRANSFER FUNCTION; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 77952551514     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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