Seismological evidence for a localized mushy zone at the Earth’s inner core boundary

The existence of a mushy zone in the Earth’s inner core has been suggested, but has remained unproven. Here, the authors have discovered a 4–8 km thick mushy zone at the inner core boundary beneath the Okhotsk Sea, indicating that there may be more localized mushy zones at the inner core boundary....

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Main Authors: Dongdong Tian, Lianxing Wen
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/3522f56066e14adf91cde6a77c4740d3
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