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What is the outline of a cross section of earth?

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Any way you slice the earth, you get a chunk whose outline is a circle.

(or approximately a circle if you look closely the mountains and valleys that the cross section cuts through disturb the circle). a mathematical sphere will give a mathematical circle at all cross sections.

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