Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

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

  • Dongdong Tian,
  • Lianxing Wen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00229-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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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.