Is Earth's core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet's interior

ScienceDaily
Jun 3, 2021, 11:19 am136 pts
Seismic waves generated by earthquakes travel through Earth's solid iron inner core faster in the direction of the rotation axis than along the equator. Scientists created a core growth model to explain this. To fit seismic data, the model predicts that asymmetric growth of the core leads to crystal movement…

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