Travel across the globe and you will see landscapes change along the way. But what if the same were true inside Earth? What if the landscapes we see on the surface also exist deep within? In this week’s Geodynamics 101 post, Ankit Barik, Assistant Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University, explores the hidden topography deep inside our planet and why do they matter. The only fluid part of the ...[Read More]
The Hidden Topography of the Deep Earth
Figure 1: Outer core with topography, exaggerated 200 times. Data from Koelemeijer, 2021.