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Earth -- Core Composition | |
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the Earth's core. |
· Earth: Structure and composition of the solid Earth. Encyclopedia Britannica, various editions.
· Birch, F., 1952, Elasticity and constitution of the Earth's interior. Journal of Geophysical Research, 57, 227-86.
· Jacobs, J.A., 1987, The earth's core. International Geophysics Series, v. 37, Academic Press.
· Merrill, R.T., M.W. McElhinny, and P.L. McFadden, 1998, The magnetic field of the earth: paleomagnetism, the core, and the deep mantle. International Geophysics Series, v. 63, Academic Press.
· Jeanloz, R., 1990, The nature of the Earth's core. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 18, 357-86.
· Buffett, B.A., 2000, Earth's core and the geodynamo. Science, 288 (5473, June 16), 2007-12.
· Birch, F., 1964, Density and composition of Earth's mantle and core. Journal of Geophysical Research, 69, 4377-88.
· Stevenson, D.J., 1981, Models of the Earth's core. Science, 214 (4521, November 6), 611-19.
· Masters, T.G., and P.M. Shearer, 1990, Summary of seismological constraints on the structure of the Earth's core. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95 (B13, December 10), 21691-95.
· Bloxham, J., and A. Jackson, 1991, Fluid flow near the surface of Earth's outer core. Reviews of Geophysics, 29 (1, February), 97-120.
· Hide, R., and J.O. Dickey, 1991, Earth's variable rotation. Science, 253 (5020, August 9), 629-37.
· Glatzmaier, G.A., and P.H. Roberts, 1995, A three-dimensional self-consistent computer simulation of a geomagnetic field reversal. Nature, 377 (6546, September 21), 203-9.
· Boehler, R., 1996, Melting termperature of the Earth's mantle and core: Earth's thermal structure. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 24, 15-40.
· Glatzmaier, G.A., and P.H. Roberts, 1996, Rotation and magnetism of Earth's inner core. Science, 274 (5294, December 13), 1887-91.
· Weijia Kuang, and J. Bloxham, 1997, An Earth-like numerical dynamo model. Nature, 389 (6649, September 25), 371-74.
· Lay, T., Q. Williams, and E.J. Garnero, 1998, The core-mantle boundary layer and deep Earth dynamics. Nature, 392 (6675, April 2), 461-68.
· Merrill, R.T., and P.L. McFadden, 1999, Geomagnetic polarity transitions. Reviews of Geophysics, 37 (2, May), 201-26.
· Glatzmaier, G.A., R.S. Coe, L. Hongre, and P.H. Roberts, 1999, The role of the Earth's mantle in controlling the frequency of geomagnetic reversals. Nature, 401 (6756, October 28), 885-90.
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