Inner core-mantle gravitational locking and the super-rotation of the inner core

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 806-817

  Dumberry, Mathieu ^a   Mound, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core, outer core and inner core; Dynamo: theories and simulations; Earth rotation variations

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; EARTH ROTATION; GEODYNAMO; INNER CORE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTER CORE; ROTATION;

EID: 77953115026     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04563.x     Document Type: Article

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