# The deep Earth

- kind: region

The interior we can reach only with seismic waves, and the history we can read only in rocks.

## Problems

- [Continental drift](/wiki/Problem:plate-tectonics.md) (solved)
- [The age of the Earth](/wiki/Problem:age-of-earth.md) (solved)
- [What killed the dinosaurs](/wiki/Problem:dinosaur-extinction.md) (solved)
- [The geodynamo and magnetic reversals](/wiki/Problem:geodynamo.md) (partial)
- [Earthquake prediction](/wiki/Problem:earthquake-prediction.md) (open)

Part of [Earth](/wiki/Continent:earth.md).

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