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Study Reconciles Long-Standing Contradiction of Deep-Earth Dynamics
New databases give researchers a look into processes inside the Earth’s mantle
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Scientists Confirm Earth’s Inner Core Rotating Faster Than Rest of Planet
Scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have ended a nine-year debate over whether the Earth’s inner core is undergoing changes that can be detected on a human timescale. Their work, which appears in the August 26 issue of the journal Science, measured differences in the time it…
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