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Low viscosity of the Earth’s inner core

The Earth’s solid inner core is a highly attenuating medium. It consists mainly of iron. The high attenuation of sound wave propagation in the inner core is at odds with the widely accepted paradigm of hexagonal close-packed phase stability under inner core conditions, because sound waves propagate...

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Autores principales: Belonoshko, Anatoly B., Fu, Jie, Bryk, Taras, Simak, Sergei I., Mattesini, Maurizio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6554349/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31171778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10346-2