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Science 3 April 1987:
Vol. 236. no. 4797, pp. 37 - 48
DOI: 10.1126/science.236.4797.37
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Global Images of the Earth's Interior

ADAM M. DZIEWONSKI 1 and JOHN H. WOODHOUSE 1

1 Professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

The three-dimensional maps of the earth's interior now span regions from the bottom of the crust to the inner core of the earth. Although a wealth of new information on the dynamics of the earth has been discovered, the inner core offers the greatest surprise: it appears to be anisotropic with the axis of symmetry aligned with the axis of rotation.


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