The shuffling rotation of the Earth's inner core revealed by earthquake doublets

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 497-502

  Tkalčić, Hrvoje ^a   Young, Mallory ^a   Bodin, Thomas ^b   Ngo, Silvie ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ROTATION; GEODYNAMICS; INNER CORE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MANTLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878715587     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1813     Document Type: Article

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