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Structure of the inner core boundary

 

作者: DavidE. Loper,  

 

期刊: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics  (Taylor Available online 1983)
卷期: Volume 25, issue 1-2  

页码: 139-155

 

ISSN:0309-1929

 

年代: 1983

 

DOI:10.1080/03091928308221750

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

A model of the inner-core boundary (ICB) is constructed which is consistent with current ideas of the dynamic and thermodynamic state of the core and which is capable of reflecting seismic waves with period of one second. This requires the mass fraction of solid below the ICB to grow to an appreciable fraction in roughly one kilometer. This rapid growth of solid with depth is a result of downward fluid flow from the outer core which is a part of the convective motions which sustain the geodynamo. The solid which crystallizes from this descending fluid after it crosses the ICB continually coats the dendrites which occur there. The gradual cooling of the outer core causes the ICB to advance by growth of dendrites at their tips. The balance of these two effects gives an equilibrium profile for the mass fraction of solid with depth below the ICB which is capable of yielding sharp reflection of seismic waves.

 

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