Surprisingly rapid changes in the Earth's core discovered
Monday, July 7, 2008 - 09:14
in Earth & Climate
In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, the geophysicist Mioara MANDEA from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and her Danish colleague Nils OLSEN from the National Space Institute/DTU Copenhagen, have shown that motions in the fluid in the Earth`s core are changing surprisingly fast, and that this, in turn, effects the magnetic field of our Planet.
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