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Is Earth's inner core surrounded by a liquid outer core?
Yes earths inner core is a dense ball of metal earths outer core is a layer of molten (melted) metal
What type of rock can be found in the Earths inner core?
The rock found in Earth's inner core is primarily composed of iron and nickel. This molten rock is in a state of extreme pressure and temperature, creating a solid inner core due to the immense pressure.
What are some forces that act on the earths plate?
The only forces that act on the earth's plates are the Sun, the Moon and the molten inner core of the earth itself.
What the central part of earth that consists of and inner and outer portion?
core: inner solid, outer molten. the mantle is also sometimes divided into lower & upper.
What is the earths outer core?
The outer core is a liquid that is in between the inner core and mantle. It is 2,000km thick.
What is the layer just above the earths center?
The layer just above the Earth's center is the outer core. It is composed of molten iron and nickel, and it surrounds the solid inner core. The outer core is responsible for generating the Earth's magnetic field.
Is the core of the earth molten?
Part of it is. The outer core is molten while the inner core is solid.
Inner core definition?
the inner part of earths core
What keeps the rocks inside the earth in molten state?
Radioactive decay in the inner core of k40 U238 and Th232 cause the earths internal heat plus lithostatic pressure (pressure of the overlying rocks).
Does inner earth have molten rock?
yes alot
What molten metal forms the earths core?
The question's wrong there...the inner core is made out of SOLID iron and nickel. But if you were talking about the OUTER core, it is extremely runny and gooey iron and nickel and a piece of molten crust.
What is made of solid and melted rock?
the outer core. the last answer was the inner core.. but im sorry to tell them that im doing this section in school currently and the OUTER core is made of molten metal. the inner is solid metal.
