Waves in the Core and Mechanical Core-Mantle Interactions

Treatise on Geophysics: Second Edition

Volumn 8, Issue , 2015, Pages 225-244

  Jault, D ^a   Finlay, C C ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Core mantle topography; Earth's core; Quasi geostrophy; Rossby waves; Torsional waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962646185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53802-4.00150-0     Document Type: Chapter

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