Abstract
Experimental studies call into question one line of evidence supporting a popular model for how the Earth's core formed. This model has it that the core was created by the gravitational segregation of iron-rich liquid metal from a molten mantle (a magma ocean). But the new work shows that the metal could have passed to the core through channels in a solid mantle being deformed by shear forces.
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