1.19 - Deep Earth Structure - The Earth’s Cores

Treatise on Geophysics: Volume 1-10

Volumn 1-10, Issue , 2007, Pages 655-693

  Souriau, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Inner core; Inner core rotation; Liquid core seismology; PKP waves; seismic waves; seismology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882890260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00023-7     Document Type: Chapter

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