Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth. It is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about 1,220 km (760 mi), which is...
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Earth's outer core is a fluid layer about 2,260 km (1,400 mi) thick, composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core and below...
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outer core whose flow generates the Earth's magnetic field, and a solid inner core. Scientific understanding of the internal structure of Earth is based...
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water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering 70.8% of Earth's crust. The remaining 29.2% of Earth's crust is land, most...
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Inner core super-rotation is the eastward rotation of the inner core of Earth relative to its mantle, for a net rotation rate that is usually[clarification...
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the Earth's mantle Hf/W ratio places Earth's core as having segregated within 25 million years. Several factors control segregation of a metal core including...
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Travelling to the Earth's center is a popular theme in science fiction. Some subterranean fiction involves traveling to the Earth's center and finding...
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Lehmann: Discoverer of the Earth's Inner Core". Zeldovich, Lina (26 March 2019). "The Woman Who Found the Earth's Inner Core". JSTOR Daily. Retrieved 22...
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Raymond W. Bernard's 1969 book The Hollow Earth. Dyson sphere Earth's inner core Expanding Earth Flat Earth Hades Hollow Moon List of topics characterized...
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Planetary core, the center of a planet Earth's inner core Earth's outer core Stellar core, the region of a star where nuclear fusion takes place Solar core, Core...
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2004, p. 48. Gubbins, David; et al. (May 19, 2011), "Melting of the Earth's inner core", Nature, 473 (7347): 361–63, Bibcode:2011Natur.473..361G, doi:10...
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Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts...
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Earth is proposed to have an innermost inner core, distinct from its inner core. It is surrounded by the inner core, and is composed of solid iron in...
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drill to the center of the Earth and set off a series of nuclear explosions in order to restart the rotation of the Earth's core. The film was released on...
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Geothermal gradient (category Structure of the Earth)
but only the outer core is postulated to exist in a molten or fluid state, and the temperature at Earth's inner core/outer core boundary, around 3,500...
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allows seismologists to determine some physical properties of the Earth's inner core. In 1830, the mathematician Siméon Denis Poisson presented to the...
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S2CID 206538202. Earth's Core–Mantle Boundary Has Core-Rigidity Zone Audrey Slesinger (January 2001), "Earth's interior: Redefining the Core–Mantle Boundary"...
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suggest that Earth's inner core—a solid center distinct from the liquid outer core—is freezing and growing out of the liquid outer core due to the gradual...
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Seismic velocity structure (section Inner core)
enabled more accurate modeling of the Earth's internal velocity structure. Recent progress focuses on the inner core's velocity features and applying methods...
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to infer the temperature of Earth's interior range from the oldest rocks on Earth to modern seismic images of the inner core size. Ancient volcanic rocks...
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Geophysics (redirect from Earth physics)
the motion of this highly conductive fluid generates the Earth's field. Earth's inner core, however, is solid because of the enormous pressure. Reconstruction...
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August 8, 2012. Density of the Earth, wolframalpha.com, archived from the original on October 17, 2013 Density of Earth's core, wolframalpha.com, archived...
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Bazhanova et al., who found that at pressures and temperatures of the Earth's inner core only FeH, FeH 3 and an unexpected compound FeH 4 are thermodynamically...
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Carbon cycle (section Carbon in the core)
core. In fact, studies using diamond anvil cells to replicate the conditions in the Earth's core indicate that iron carbide (Fe7C3) matches the inner...
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Iron (section Earth's crust)
most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, being mainly deposited...
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Meteorology (Aristotle) (section Spherical Earth)
treatise, Aristotle outlines two theories: The universe is spherical The Earth’s inner core is composed by the orbits of heavenly bodies The universe has two...
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pp. 153–154. ISBN 978-0-19-518169-2. see e.g. Hrvoje Tkalčić, The Earth's Inner Core, Cambridge University Press (2017), p. 2. Cornu, A.; Baille, J. B...
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Timeline of the far future (redirect from Future timeline of Earth)
Arwen (20 February 2011). "Reconciling the Hemispherical Structure of Earth's Inner Core With its Super-Rotation". Nature Geoscience. 4 (4): 264–267. Bibcode:2011NatGe...
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Early Archean (before the final formation of the Earth's inner core) to the subsequent two-layer core-mantle plate tectonics convection theory. However...
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(1996). "Seismological evidence for differential rotation of the Earth's inner core". Nature. 382 (6588): 221–224. doi:10.1038/382221a0. Zhang, Jian;...
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