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The Love Numbers of the Anelastic Earth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

V. N. Zharkov
Affiliation:
Institute of the Physics of the Earth, U.S.S.R. Academy of Science Moscow
S. M. Molodensky
Affiliation:
Institute of the Physics of the Earth, U.S.S.R. Academy of Science Moscow

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We calculate corrections to the Love numbers resulting from the small frequency-dependent variations in the shear modulus, μ, arising from anelasticity in the Earth. The corrections are of the order of a percent, which in some cases exceeds the observational error. We point out the possibility of using these corrections to study the Earth's anelasticity at long (tidal) periods.

Type
Session V
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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