Earth's Inner Core
. o t0 N7 e- J6 k- VScientists have long struggled to understand what lies at the planet's center, Direct observation of its center is impossible,so researchers must_____(51)to other evidence.
9 C1 M% d$ h% G8 [3 IIn 1889,a German scientist detected a severe earthquake in Japan.Geophysicists concluded that shock waves_____(52)jolts(晃动)from one side of Earth through the center to the other side.Then in 1936,Danish geophysicist Inge Lehmann studied the waves______(53) to determine that within Earth's core of molten(熔化了的)iron lies a solid inner core-but_____ (54)that core was made of eluded(难倒)her.Other geophysicists quickly determined that Lehmann's inner core was composed mostly_____(55)iron. Since then, Lehmann's discovery has_____(56)conventional Earth science.
5 ?6 B6 Y: o% A: B6 fBut now scientists are challenging traditional theory with new and radical _____(57) For example,Earth's center could actually contain an"inner core within the inner core,claim Ishii and colleague Adam Dziewonski.- B) I3 K3 N2 V4 P
Analyzing hundreds of thousands of earthquake wave _____(58),they maintain that the inner core has at its heart a tiny, even more solid sphere(球体) . This sphere''may be the oldest fossil____(59)from the formation of Earth,"says Dziewonski. S' m7 l/ {4 x4 C+ Z4 b
Dziewonski and Ishii speculate that shortly_____(60) Earth formed around 4.8billion years ago,a giant asteroid(小行星)smashed into the young planet and nearly melted it. But Earth's center didn't quite melt;it______(61)mass as the planet cooled. The core within a core may be the kernel(核心)that endured."Its presence could change our basic ideas about the_____ (62)of the planet,"Dziewonski says idea is tame(温和的)compared to the_____(63)theories of independent geophysicist J.Marvin Herndon.Earth's inner core is made not of iron,he claims but a_____(64)of nickel and silicon Hemdon has a truly revolutionary notion:Within the nickel silicide(硅化物)inner core is also an"inner"inner core-an 8 km-wide ball of the element uranium.Uranium is radioactive.Hemdon thinks the uranium releases heat energy as its atoms_____(65)fission-split and crash into another in a chain reaction. In other words,we may live on top of a gigantic, "natural"nuclear power plant. I2 S& h! a% w V! H$ x% h ]4 l
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