These info are from the Smithsonian Website - Plate Tectonics - The Inner Earth
- CRUST
- Earth's skin is called crust
- Basalt is the oceanic crust (crust over oceans and seas)
- Granite is the continental crust
- MANTLE
- 84% of Earth's volume is mantle rock
- Deep+ dense
- Upper mantle is rigid
- Upper part of lower mantle is solid, hot and soft
- Lower part of lower mantle is very dense
- CORE
- Size of Mars
- Iron Meteorite
- Outer core is molten
- Outer core creates the magnetic field
- Inner core is very solid liquid metal
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