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Could I Dig a Hole Through the Earth?
Have you tried to dig a deep hole? So deep that you could dig all the way to the other side of the Earth? It's pretty hard, and lots of people have tried. So what's stopping us from digging through the Earth? It has something to do with...
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Floating on a Sea of Molten Rock
Dr. Forrester explains how tectonic plates are at the heart of earthquakes and volcanoes.
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Iris: Layers of the Earth
Earth's interior is broadly grouped into three main layers on the basis of chemical composition: crust, mantle, and core. An egg analogy is used to show relative thicknesses, and a Big Hunk analogy illustrates how a material of a single...