crust
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- noun
- /krʌst/
- Specialized
- That's the deepest part of Earth's crust, as any geologist knows.
- Earth's crust
- crust and mantle
- upper crust
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Watch on YouTubeIt's a hot spot underneath Earth's moving crust, OK?
- It's a hot spot underneath Earth's moving crust, OK?
- And specifically the lower crust might behave as both a fluid and as a solid.
- And so seismologists blow off charges and use earthquakes to sample the crust by sending sound waves through.
- There's also uranium in the crust.
- Therefore Earth is really still a ball of this hot plasma, just that it now has a crust on the outside where it's already cooled.
- So we, we live, we live in a very, I guess on top of very thin crust.
- Metals from the platinum group are very expensive because they're useful but rare in Earth's crust.
- Then I found the same kind of defects in other materials, including natural minerals either from the crust or from the Earth's mantle.
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It's removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and burying it down deep in the crust of the Earth.
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This is the weight of the Earth's crust pushing down on the magma below.
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So new ocean crust is being formed at that point.
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The surface layer is called the crust.
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When we think of rocks, we think of them as heavy, but Earth's crust is made of rock.
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These sections of the Earth's crust contain a wealth of history.
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So titanium, the ninth most abundant element in Earth's crust, is the darling of modern engineering.
Academic text (2002) -
You're standing on the thin cool crust of a gigantic ball of molten rock hurtling through frozen space.
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The surface layer of the Earth is known as the crust, where we find continents and ocean floors.
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As the Earth cooled, it developed a solid crust that allowed oceans to form.
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The solid outer layer of the Earth that forms its surface
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Etymology
Crust comes from the old Latin word crusta meaning 'rind' or 'shell'. So the Earth's crust is its hard outer shell, like the crust on a loaf of bread.