The constitution of the core: seismological evidence
@article{Bolt1982TheCO,
title={The constitution of the core: seismological evidence},
author={Bruce A. Bolt},
journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences},
year={1982},
volume={306},
pages={11 - 20}
}The present best estimates of seismic velocities in the core are compared with the 1939 solution of Jeffreys, with emphasis on the remaining uncertainties and present resolution capability. The relative contributions of measurements of seismic body waves and terrestrial eigenspectra to the inverse problem of the determination of elastic parameters, density and damping in the core are compared. Linear perturbation algorithms and smoothing functions used with the spectral data reduce their… Expand
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