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Revealing the Earth’s mantle from the tallest mountains using the Jinping Neutrino Experiment

The Earth’s engine is driven by unknown proportions of primordial energy and heat produced in radioactive decay. Unfortunately, competing models of Earth’s composition reveal an order of magnitude uncertainty in the amount of radiogenic power driving mantle dynamics. Recent measurements of the Earth...

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Autores principales: Šrámek, Ondřej, Roskovec, Bedřich, Wipperfurth, Scott A., Xi, Yufei, McDonough, William F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5017162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27611737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep33034