On the genesis of the Earth's magnetism

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Roberts, Paul H ^a   King, Eric M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOMETRY; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84884583001     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/76/9/096801     Document Type: Article

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