Sharp hemisphere boundaries in a translating inner core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1719-1723

  Geballe, Z M ^a   Lasbleis, M ^b   Cormier, V F ^c   Day, E A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

grain growth; hemisphere; inner core; translation; velocity dispersion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC ELASTICITY; CRYSTALLINE DOMAINS; HEMISPHERE; INNER CORE; INNER CORE BOUNDARY; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; GRAIN GROWTH; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WAVE PROPAGATION;

DISPERSIONS;

ANISOTROPY; FORWARD MODELING; GEODYNAMICS; INNER CORE; ISOTROPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIGIDITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84879117862     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50372     Document Type: Article

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