Solid earth sciences

Preface for the article collection of "Multidisciplinary Researches on Deep Interiors of the Earth and Planets"

Satoru Tanaka, Jonathan Aurnou and Michael Bergman

New parameter of roundness R: Circularity corrected by aspect ratio

Takashimizu Y, Iiyoshi M

Dynamic responses of the Earth's outer core to assimilation of observed geomagnetic secular variation

Kuang W, Tangborn A

Simultaneous measurements of elastic wave velocities and electrical conductivity in a brine-saturated granitic rock under confining pressures and their implication for interpretation of geophysical observations

Watanabe T, Higuchi A

Iron snow, crystal floats, and inner-core growth: modes of core solidification and implications for dynamos in terrestrial planets and moons

Breuer D, Rueckriemen T, Spohn T

An in situ experimental study of Zr4+ transport capacity of water-rich fluids in the temperature and pressure range of the deep crust and upper mantle

Mysen B

Complex inner core boundary from frequency characteristics of the reflection coefficients of PKiKP waves observed by Hi-net

Tanaka S, Tkalčić H

Effect of width, amplitude, and position of a core mantle boundary hot spot on core convection and dynamo action

Dietrich W, Wicht J, Hori K

Can clay minerals account for the behavior of non-asperity on the subducting plate interface?

Katayama I, Kubo T, Sakuma H, Kawai K

Evidence for natural molecular hydrogen seepage associated with Carolina bays (surficial, ovoid depressions on the Atlantic Coastal Plain, Province of the USA)

Zgonnik V, Beaumont V, Deville E, Larin N, Pillot D, Farrrell K M