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Nature 440, 1108-1110 (27 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/4401108a; Published online 26 April 2006
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Geophysics: Magical mantle tour
David Cyranoski1
- David Cyranoski is Nature's Asia-Pacific correspondent.
Abstract
Geophysicists are racing to understand a recently discovered phenomenon deep in the Earth. David Cyranoski joins them.
It's a place where everything goes weird. Some 2,700 kilometres inside the Earth, just above the boundary between the planet's solid mantle and its liquid outer core, is a layer where seismic waves act strangely.
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