Hemispherical anisotropic patterns of the Earth's inner core

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 9507-9512

  Mattesinia, Maurizio ^a   Belonoshko, Anatoly B ^b   Buforn, Elisa ^a   Ramírez, María ^a   Simak, Sergei I ^c   Udías, Agustín ^a   Mao, Ho Kwang ^d   Ahujae, Rajeev ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Elastic anisotropy; Fe bcc hcp; Molecular dynamics; PKiKP PKIKP waves

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77953107436     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004856107     Document Type: Article

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