“The molten outer core is widely known to be turbulent, but its turbulence had not been observed to disrupt its neighbor the inner core on a human timescale,” said John Vidale, from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and principal investigator of the study.
In fact, the core might go through a process known as “viscous deformation”, where its shape changes and it interacts with the outer core.
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say The core of the Earth is undergoing surprise structural changes, researchers believe.
While scientists have long been aware of changes to the Earth’s inner core, most of the research assessing it has looked at the way it rotates.
A new study has seen scientists unexpectedly find that the inner core of our planet is changing its physical nature.
