Is Earths mantle is thinner than earths crust?

Answer 1

The crust is much thinner than the mantle.

Answer 2

The Earth's oceanic crust is very thin at the mid-ocean ridges, and gradually thickens as it moves away from the ridges. The continental crust is thickest under mountain ranges. The average depth of oceanic crust is around 5 miles. The average depth of continental crust is 22 miles.

Answer 3

Arguably, yes. The Earth's crust varies in thickness from about 5 km in some parts of some oceans, to as thick as 50 km when measured on some parts of the land, and has an average depth of about 35 km.

By contrast, the next layer down, what is called the Mantle, has a thickness of about 2850 kilometers, but is sometimes subdivided into an "upper mantle" of about 25 kilometers and a "lower mantle" of about 2830 km.

The next layer, the Outer Core, has a thickness of about 2200 kilometers. Finally, the Inner Core has a thickness (or a radius) of about 1270 km.

Answer 4

No. Relatively very thin. Crust 6-40 km. thick. Mantel about 2,800 km. thick. Outer core about 2,300 km. thick. Solid inner core of iron and nickel about 2,400 km. in diameter.

Answer 5

No, on the contrary it is the thinnest. The thickest is below the crust, the mantle.

Answer 6

Continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust. And oceanic crust becomes thicker due to sedimentation the further it travels from its point of origin, the mid-ocean ridges.

Answer 7

the Earth's crust is thinner under oceans and thicker under continents

Answer 8

No, the Crust is not the thickest part of Earth, in fact, it's the thinnest. The Outer Core is the thickest part of Earth.

Answer 9

no it is not because of the crust is colder and thicker

Answer 10

No. Relatively very thin. Crust 6-40 km. thick. Mantel about 2,800 km. thick. Outer core about 2,300 km. thick. Solid inner core of iron and nickel about 2,400 km. in diameter.