New insights into centre of the Earth
Friday, August 15, 2008 - 12:49
in Earth & Climate
A new observation of the very deepest part of the Earth, the solid inner core, has been reported this week in Nature. The team from the University of Bristol also observed intriguing evidence of a ‘texture` in the solid iron that may reflect the patterns left as the swirling liquid iron of the outer core freezes to form the inner core.