Compositional instability of Earth's solid inner core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1084-1088

  Gubbins, D ^a,b   Alfe D ^c   Davies, C J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convection; Inner core; Light elements

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL INSTABILITY; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; CONVECTIVE STABILITY; INNER CORE; LIGHT ELEMENTS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; SULFUR CONCENTRATIONS; THERMAL CONVECTIONS;

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; HEAT CONVECTION; OXYGEN; SEISMOLOGY; SILICON; SULFUR;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALLOY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CORE (PLANETARY); INSTABILITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEISMIC PROPERTY; SILICON; STABILIZATION; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84876923939     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50186     Document Type: Article

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