No, caves do not extend deeper than 100 miles into the Earth's crust. The deepest caves known to exist are typically only several thousand feet deep. The extreme pressures and temperatures found at greater depths make it impossible for natural caves to extend that far.
Continental crust.
The extreme heat and pressure at such depths make it technically challenging and dangerous to drill further into the Earth. Additionally, the cost and limited scientific benefit of drilling deeper have deterred efforts to explore beyond six miles.
The Earth's crust ranges in thickness from five to 25 miles. It is the outermost layer of the Earth and is divided into two types: continental crust and oceanic crust. Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust.
The average is 9 miles.The average continental crust thickness is 22 miles thick. The maximum crust thickness is 56 miles underneath the Himalayas, and is 16 miles thick at its thinnest in various places.The average oceanic crust is about 4 miles thick.For the entire Earth then, the average crust thickness is 9 miles.To scale size, the earths crust would be about the thickness of 3 ordinary sheets of paper on a basketball. The thickness of a chicken eggshell would be 16 pieces of paper on a basketball, so the earths crust is 5 times thinner than a typical egg shell. And the crust is only as thick as the egg shell at its maximum thickness underneath Nepal.Sleep tight.
The thinnest Earth sphere is the Earth's crust, which is the outermost solid layer of Earth. The crust is thinnest beneath the oceans, where it can be less than 5 kilometers (3 miles) thick, compared to the continental crust, which averages around 30 kilometers (18 miles) in thickness.
Nobody has gone deeper than the upper part of the crust.
Earths crust extend deeper below the continents than below the oceans basins (or at least this is what I think).
yes. Earths crust is 20 miles thick and the moon"s crust is 40 miles thick.
Continental crust.
It is highly unlikely that humans will ever be able to travel deeper than the Earth's crust due to extreme temperatures, pressures, and geological obstacles present in the Earth's mantle and core. The technological challenges and risks involved in developing the necessary equipment to withstand such conditions are currently insurmountable.
First, you need to prospect it, than you need to mine for it. Minerals can appear in caves.
50 miles deep. 60 miles deeper than earth.
The oceans flow to the places where the crust is the lowest. Gravity causes them to flow downward. The mantle, below the crust, is at the same depth everywhere, so if the crust is lower, it is because it is thinner.
No. Fossils only exist in the crust. Any fossil subjected to the heat and pressure any deeper than the crust would be destroyed.
The extreme heat and pressure at such depths make it technically challenging and dangerous to drill further into the Earth. Additionally, the cost and limited scientific benefit of drilling deeper have deterred efforts to explore beyond six miles.
The Earth's crust ranges in thickness from five to 25 miles. It is the outermost layer of the Earth and is divided into two types: continental crust and oceanic crust. Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust.
Crust, Mantle, Core. The Crust is about 10 miles thick.