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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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Dongdong Tian, Lianxing Wen
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
Subjects:
Science
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Okhotsk
okhotsk sea
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00229-9
https://doaj.org/article/3522f56066e14adf91cde6a77c4740d3
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Summary: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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