Mystery of Earth’s spinning core solved!
Scientists claim to have solved a 300-year-old riddle about which direction the centre of the Earth spins.
The Earth’s inner core, made up of solid iron, ’superrotates’ in an eastward direction - meaning it spins faster than the rest of the planet, scientists at the University of Leeds found.
Meanwhile, the Earth’s outer core, comprising mainly molten iron, spins westwards at a slower pace.
Although Edmund Halley had showed the westward-drifting motion of the Earth’s geomagnetic field in 1692, it is the first time that scientists have been able to link the way the inner core spins to the behaviour of the outer core.
The planet behaves in this way because it is responding to the Earth’s geomagnetic field.
The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, help scientists to interpret the dynamics of the core of the Earth, the source of our planet’s magnetic field.
In the last few decades, seismometers measuring earthquakes travelling through the Earth’s core have identified an eastwards, or superrotation of the solid inner core, relative to Earth’s surface.
"The link is simply explained in terms of equal and opposite action," said Dr Philip Livermore, of the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.
"The magnetic field pushes eastwards on the inner core, causing it to spin faster than the Earth, but it also pushes in the opposite direction in the liquid outer core, which creates a westward motion," Livermore said.
The solid iron inner core is about the size of the Moon. It is surrounded by the liquid outer core, an iron alloy, whose convection-driven movement generates the geomagnetic field.
The fact that the Earth’s internal magnetic field changes slowly, over a timescale of decades, means that the electromagnetic force responsible for pushing the inner and outer cores will itself change over time.
This may explain fluctuations in the predominantly eastwards rotation of the inner core, a phenomenon reported for the last 50 years in a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.
The new study used a model of the Earth’s core which was run on the giant super-computer Monte Rosa, part of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in Lugano, Switzerland.
Using a new method, they were able to simulate the Earth’s core with an accuracy about 100 times better than other models.
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