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Scientists discover onion-like layering in Earth’s inner core

Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional ...
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How Is Earth’s Core Still Hellishly Hot After Billions Of Years?

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Seismologists measure heat flow from Earth’s molten core into the lower mantle

For the first time, scientists have directly measured the amount of heat flowing from the molten metal of Earth’s core into a region at the base of the mantle, a process that helps drive both the ...
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Earth’s core and core-mantle boundary

Earth’s inner core has both changed its relative rotation rate and deformed in the past few decades, according to an analysis of seismic waves recorded when the inner core occupied the same relative ...
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Deep Earth : physics and chemistry of the lower mantle and core / Hidenori Terasaki, Rebecca A. Fischer, editors

Front Matter -- Thermal Structure of Deep Earth. Melting of Fe Alloys and the Thermal Structure of the Core / Rebecca A Fischer -- Temperature of the Lower Mantle and Core Based on Ab Initio Mineral ...
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Earth's Core Seems to Be Wrapped in Layers Like an Onion, Study Finds

Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, ...
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Earth’s core may have an onion-like structure scientists never knew existed

There may be hidden layers to Earth’s core dictated by chemical composition. In A Nutshell Lab experiments suggest Earth’s ...