Thread: Seriousness What Heats the Earth's Core?
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Old 10-07-2010, 01:50 AM   #57
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Originally Posted by wodin View Post
If Marone can’t get that right, what else did he get wrong? Being a Penn State professor of geosciences, he should know better!
There are two parts to the Earth's core-- the solid inner core and the liquid outer core. I think what he was trying to say is that over that timeframe that amount of the liquid outer core material cools enough to solidify and become part of the inner core. (And eventually produce some of these.)
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