Chemical Convection and Stratification in the Earth's Outer Core

Convection in the Earth's outer core is driven by buoyancy sources of both thermal and compositional origin. The thermal and compositional molecular diffusivities differ by several orders of magnitude, which can affect the dynamics in various ways. So far, the large majority of numerical simula...

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Main Authors: Mathieu Bouffard, Gaël Choblet, Stéphane Labrosse, Johannes Wicht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2019.00099/full