You can't get samples from the core. You might be able to get a mantle xenolith, or, alternatively, there are locations where the mantle crops out at the surface due to massive folding structures in the crust. One example is the ovrea zone in northern italy. All the info we have about the core currently comes from seismic data; studying how fast earthquake waves travel across the globe. Your best hope if you want a sample of material akin to that in the earths core is not to look to the ground but to look to skies... meteorites, to be precise. Iron metiorites are considered by most scientists to represent the stuff in the earths core which never actually eded up being incorporated into the earth. Good luck.
2006-08-20 10:01:23
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answered by Anonymous
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I will assume you are talking about using a coring machine to acquire a core of rock from which you can then collect a sample.
Depends on how deep you want to core and where. In many cases in the USA, the state geological survey or one of the primary state university's will have geologic core samples from various depths. Just check with them.
If you want a real shallow core, you can get an auger and collect the core samples yourself.
2006-08-20 19:36:12
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answered by idiot detector 6
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If this is serious I wonder what your non-serious questions are like. If you need samples from the earth's core then you are SOL because nobody has been able to reach the mantle, much less the core.
2006-08-21 22:21:50
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answered by Amphibolite 7
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No one knows what is in earth's core, much less has samples. You can bounce x-rays off it, bend sound waves around it, shoot neutrinos through it, measure its magnetic susceptibility, etc. but there is no way with current technology to get a sample. The closest you could come would be to sample some lava flow from a volcano.
2006-08-20 16:06:36
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answered by Answers1 6
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It's not possible... the deepest we can go with today's technology is a few miles, the core is 1000s of miles down.
The closest you could get would be a mantle xenolith. Certain magmas have what geologists believe to be 'inclusions' of small pieces of mantle. They are olivine-rich rocks called peridotite (the gem name for olivine, peridot, gets it's name from this). Peridotite is avaliable at many rock shops. Also, certain ophiolite sequences (in Italy, Macquaire Island, etc.) can have possible upper mantle rocks.
2006-08-20 16:03:22
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answered by QFL 24-7 6
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Don't understand the "core" part.
If you want rocks from the subsurface, it can be as easy as stopping at road cuts, quarries, and strip mines. This is how geologists get basic information on the geology of an area.
But, be very careful and always get permission before venturing onto private lands, especially mines and quarries.
2006-08-20 22:29:12
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answered by Tom-PG 4
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You can't the core is too hot and there isn't a container which will hold it without melting it.
2006-08-20 16:02:40
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answered by Mariposa 7
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You need to find another difficult project. I feel that if you spent your life on this one, you would be no further at the end of it than you are at present.
2006-08-21 13:32:56
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answered by Anonymous
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do u think getting coal samples might work?
2006-08-24 17:52:30
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answered by annie 3
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IRON, NICKLE
2006-08-24 06:26:20
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answered by shariffkhayum 2
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