Unveiling the Earth’s Enigma: Unlocking the Surprising Softness of the Inner Core

2023-10-04 13:42:08

“Seismologists have discovered that the center of the Earth, called the inner core, is surprisingly soft, regarding the same as soft butter in your kitchen,” says Professor Yung-Fu Lin. “The big discovery we discovered is that hard iron becomes surprisingly soft deep inside the Earth because its atoms can move much more than we ever imagined. This increased movement makes the inner core less rigid and weaker once morest shear forces.”

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