Viscosity of the Earth's inner core: Constraints from nutation observations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 343-349

  Koot, Laurence ^a   Dumberry, Mathieu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Creep and deformation; Earth's inner core; Electromagnetic coupling; Magnetic field at the ICB; Nutations; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

CELESTIAL BODIES; EARTH'S ROTATION; EM COUPLING; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; GRAVITATIONAL TORQUE; INNER CORE; INNER CORE BOUNDARY; MECHANICAL COUPLING; NORMAL MODES; NUTATIONS; PERIODIC VARIATION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; QUALITY FACTORS; RADIAL MAGNETIC FIELD; ROTATION AXES; TIME-SCALES; VISCOELASTIC DEFORMATION; VISCOUS DEFORMATION; VISCOUS FRICTION; VISCOUS RELAXATION;

CENTRIFUGATION; CREEP; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GRAVITATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; ROTATION; SEISMOLOGY; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY;

EARTH (PLANET);

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTH STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INNER CORE; NUTATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RHEOLOGY; TORQUE; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79960561240     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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