The Formation of

the CRUST
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CRUST
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 WHAT IS A CRUST?
“Crust” describes the outermost shell of a
terrestrial planet.
Earth's crust is generally divided into older,
thicker continental crust and younger, denser
oceanic crust.
According to research, a little more than 47%
of the Earth's crust consists of oxygen.

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 WHAT IS A CRUST?
 The dynamic geology of Earth's crust is
informed by plate tectonics.
Our planet’s thin, 40-kilometer (25-mile) deep
crust—just 1% of Earth’s mass—contains all
known life in the universe.
It is made of solid rocks and minerals.

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 CRAFTING THE
EARTH’S CRUST

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 CRAFTING OF THE
CRUST
⋆ Billions of years ago, the
planetary blob that would
become the Earth started out as a
hot, viscous ball of rock. The
heaviest material, mostly iron
and nickel, sank to the center of
the new planet and became its
core. The molten material that
surrounded the core was the
early mantle. 6
 The earliest crust likely formed as a result of the
cooling of the Earth’s uppermost mantle.

Earth’s Crust formed at

least 4.4 billion years
ago, just 160 million
years after the formation
of our solar system.

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 CRAFTING THE EARTH’S
CRUST
⋆ Water trapped inside minerals erupted
with lava, a process called “outgassing.”
As more water was outgassed, the mantle
solidified. Materials that initially stayed
in their liquid phase during this process,
called “incompatible elements,”
ultimately became Earth’s brittle crust.
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THE PROCESS

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 WHAT IS THE PLATE
TECTONICS THEORY?
 A theory dealing with the dynamics of Earth’s outer
shell—the lithosphere—that revolutionized Earth
sciences by providing a uniform context for
understanding mountain-building processes, volcanoes,
and earthquakes as well as the evolution of Earth’s
surface and reconstructing its past continents and
oceans.

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WHO FIRST PROPOSED THE
IDEA OF PATE TETONICS?

German meteorologist Alfred Wegener is often

credited as the first to develop a theory of plate
tectonics, in the form of continental drift.

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CONTINENTAL
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 HOW DOES PLATE
TECTONICS THEORY
WORK?
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THE PROCESS

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MONDAY
BUROT TRIO

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 “
It’s the little details that are
vital.
Little things make big things
happen.
-John Wooden

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