That swirl happens, in part, because of a process in which hotter, lighter material from the outer core rises into the mantle above. Swirling iron in the outer core generates a magnetic field that stretches all the way from there to the space surrounding our planet. NASAĮarth's core plays a key role in protecting the planet from dangerous solar wind and radiation. The core's lopsided growth might impact Earth's magnetic fieldĪn illustration of Earth's magnetic field, in blue, as it protects the planet from solar radiation. The subducting plate cools the mantle in that area of the planet. When one plate pushes up against another, one subducts, or sinks, below the other. The genesis of that cooling chain, Frost said, could be Earth's tectonic plates. So the mantle on that side, in turn, must be cooling the outer core faster than the mantle on the other side. If iron is crystallizing more quickly on one side of the inner core than the other, that must mean the outer core is cooling faster on that side. 'Every layer in the Earth is controlled by what's above it, and influences what's below it,' Frost told Live Science. Gettyįrost's team isn't sure why iron crystals are forming unevenly in the inner core, but he said the answer likely lies in the layers above it - both the outer core and the mantle, a 1,800-mile-thick band of hot rock on which the tectonic plates float. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.An artist's concept of Earth's layers, including the crust, mantle, and inner and outer cores. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a 'scraper' or 'downloader' program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.

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