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August 12, 2013

Deep Earth heat surprise
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 13, 2013
The key to understanding Earth's evolution is to look at how heat is conducted in the deep lower mantle-a region some 400 to 1,800 miles (660 to 2,900 kilometers) below the surface. Researchers at the Carnegie Institution, with colleagues at the University of Illinois, have for the first time been able to experimentally simulate the pressure conditions in this region to measure thermal conductivity using a new measurement technique developed by the collaborators and implemented by the Carnegie team on t ... read more

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