Texturing in Earth's inner core due to preferential growth in its equatorial belt

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 188, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 173-184

  Deguen, Renaud ^a,b   Cardin, Philippe ^a   Merkel, Sébastien ^c   Lebensohn, Ricardo A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Crystallization; HCP iron; Inner core; Texturation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BUOYANCY; CALCULATIONS; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; PARALLEL FLOW; SOLIDIFICATION; STRAIN RATE; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; EARTH'S INNER CORES; HCP IRON; INNER CORE; LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; PREFERENTIAL GROWTH; TEXTURATION; TEXTURE DEVELOPMENT;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANISOTROPY; BELT; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; INNER CORE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOLIDIFICATION; STRAIN RATE; STRATIFICATION; TEXTURE;

EID: 82455162426     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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