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Topography at the core‐mantle boundary

 

作者: Carl Bowin,  

 

期刊: Geophysical Research Letters  (WILEY Available online 1986)
卷期: Volume 13, issue 13  

页码: 1513-1516

 

ISSN:0094-8276

 

年代: 1986

 

DOI:10.1029/GL013i013p01513

 

数据来源: WILEY

 

摘要:

Analysis of the Earth's gravity field using ratio of gravity to geoid (g/N) and cumulative degree contribution curve techniques improves resolution of the mass, depth, and dimensions of anomalous mass sources within the planet. The source for four of the ten major geoid anomalies of the Earth has large contributions from harmonic degrees 2 and 3, lie at the core‐mantle boundary, and the greatest has a mass anomaly of 4.2·1022grams. That boundary has a density contrast (4.4 gm/cm³) which is greater than at any other location, including the contrast at the Earth's surface with space. Thus, relatively small vertical undulations of that boundary produce very large mass anomalies. Topographic relief of less than 3 km at the core‐mantle boundary occurs, and accounts for the existence of the largest geoid anomalies occurring on the

 

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