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The Interior of the Earth
Eugene C. Robertson
Explains for a general audience how seismic waves, heat flow and meteorite composition combine as indirect evidence for a layered Earth of crust, mantle and core.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Earth & Environmental Science · Geophysics
A topic within Geophysics, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Earth & Environmental Science.
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Eugene C. Robertson
Explains for a general audience how seismic waves, heat flow and meteorite composition combine as indirect evidence for a layered Earth of crust, mantle and core.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Adam M. Dziewonski & Don L. Anderson
Fits a single set of density, seismic-velocity and attenuation profiles to a huge compilation of seismic and mass and moment-of-inertia data, giving seismology a standard reference model of Earth's interior still used as the baseline today.
link checked 17 Sept 2026