Revealed by Observational Seismology
by
Hrvoje Tkalčić
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
The inner core is a planet within a planet: a hot sphere with a mass of one hundred quintillion tons of iron and nickel that lies more than 5000 kilometres beneath our feet. It plays a crucial role in driving outer core fluid motion and the geodynamo, which generates the Earth's magnetic field. This...