5 Characteristics of the Earth’s Crust

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The continental crust covers 41 percent of the Earth’s surface, although a quarter of it is under the oceans.

The Earth’s crust is the outermost layer of the Earth. The Earth’s crust is about 40 kilometers deep, only 1 percent of the Earth’s mass.

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Characteristics of the Earth’s crust

Reported from National Geographic, the following are the characteristics of the Earth’s crust, Earth’s outer layer:

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2. Beneath the Earth’s crust is the Earth’s mantle, which is mostly in the form of solid rocks and minerals.

3. The Earth’s crust as well as the upper part of the mantle are part of a geological unit called the lithosphere.

4. The depth of the lithosphere varies and the Mohorovicic discontinuity (the boundary between the mantle and the Earth’s crust) does not have a uniform depth.

5. The temperature of the Earth’s crust varies. The upper crust is resistant to ambient temperatures, while the Earth’s crust near Moho has a temperature of about 200 degrees Celsius to 400 degrees Celsius.

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Other terrestrial planets in the solar system, namely Mercury, Venus, Mars, and even the Moon also have crusts.

Unlike Earth, however, the crusts of these celestial bodies were not formed by the interactions of tectonic plates.

Although the Moon is smaller in size, the Moon’s crust is thicker than the Earth’s crust.

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