There is potential evidence for a stratified layer at the top of the Earth's core, but its origin is not well understood. Laboratory experiments suggest that the stratified layer could be a sunken remnant of the giant impact that formed the Moon.
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Nakajima, M. Stratified by a sunken impactor. Nature Geosci 9, 734–735 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2815
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