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    The Earth is composed of four main layers from the inside out: the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The inner core is a solid ball of iron and nickel with temperatures over 4,000°C. Surrounding the inner core is the outer core, also made mostly of iron and nickel but liquid with temperatures from 4,500-5,500°C. The mantle, the largest layer, is between the core and crust and made of silicate rock with temperatures from 1,000-3,700°C. The thin crust on the outermost layer varies in composition and thickness, with the continental crust thicker and composed of granite and the oceanic crust thinner and composed of basalt.

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    The Earth is composed of four main layers from the inside out: the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The inner core is a solid ball of iron and nickel with temperatures over 4,000°C. Surrounding the inner core is the outer core, also made mostly of iron and nickel but liquid with temperatures from 4,500-5,500°C. The mantle, the largest layer, is between the core and crust and made of silicate rock with temperatures from 1,000-3,700°C. The thin crust on the outermost layer varies in composition and thickness, with the continental crust thicker and composed of granite and the oceanic crust thinner and composed of basalt.

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    The Earth is composed of four main layers from the inside out: the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The inner core is a solid ball of iron and nickel with temperatures over 4,000°C. Surrounding the inner core is the outer core, also made mostly of iron and nickel but liquid with temperatures from 4,500-5,500°C. The mantle, the largest layer, is between the core and crust and made of silicate rock with temperatures from 1,000-3,700°C. The thin crust on the outermost layer varies in composition and thickness, with the continental crust thicker and composed of granite and the oceanic crust thinner and composed of basalt.

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    INTERNAL STRUCTURE

    OF THE EARTH
    (Layers of the Earth)
    Learning Objectives:
    1. Identify the layers of the Earth,
    2. Describe the Earth’s layers,
    3. Illustrate the layers of the Earth.
    Inner Core
    Inge Lehman (1936)

    • 4,000–4,700ºC Temperature
    • It is a solid metallic ball made mainly of iron.

    • 1,230 to 1,530 km
    Iron-Nickel
    Seismic Wave - a wave of energy that is generated by an
    earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the
    earth or along its surface.
    Outer Core
    Beno Gutenburg (1913)

    • 4,500–5500ºC
    • The outer core, about 2,200 kilometers
    (1,367 miles) thick, is mostly composed of
    iron and nickel.
    • Magnetic Field
    Mantle
    Andrija Mohorovicic (1909)

    • Largest part of the Earth.


    • The mantle lies between Earth's dense, super-heated
    core and its thin outer layer, the crust.
    • The mantle is about 2,900 kilometers (1,802 miles) thick.
    • 1000° C near its boundary with the crust, to 3700° C
    near its boundary with the core.
    CRUST
    •is the outermost layer of our planet.
    •Lightest layer of the earth.
    •contains silicate materials
    CRUST
    The crust contains a variety of rocks:

    1. Igneous rocks
    2. Sedimentary rocks, and;
    3. Metamorphic rocks
    CRUST
    Continental Crust - thicker, made of
    granite rocks.

    Oceanic Crust - thiner, made of basalt


    rocks.
    Basalt Rocks
    Granite Rocks
    THANK YOU
    FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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