Rocks and Minerals - Shake, rattle, and roll
Shake, rattle, and roll
Earth's very hot, solid inner coreVery dense, solid center of Earth. is the machine that Hutton envisioned. Earth's inner core is surrounded by an outer coreA liquid core that surrounds Earth's solid inner core; made mostly of iron., a hot layer of liquid metal. After that comes a layer called the mantleThick, dense layer of rock that underlies Earth's crust and overlies the core., which produces the liquid rock of volcanoes. Earth's crustThe hard, outer shell of Earth that floats upon the softer, denser mantle. is the top layer, the one on which we live.
Huge, moving blocks of rock called platesLarge...
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