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Structuring the inner core

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Earth's rocky mantle and solid inner core are separated by the 2,300-kilometre-deep layer of molten iron that constitutes the outer core. Yet the sluggish pattern of mantle convection creates structure in the inner core.

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Figure 1: Coupled convection in the Earth.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, John Lister is at the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. lister@damtp.cam.ac.uk,

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Lister, J. Structuring the inner core. Nature 454, 701–702 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454701a

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