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What is the distance of the crust only?
The Earth's crust varies in thickness, with an average of around 18 to 37 kilometers (11 to 23 miles) under continents and about 7 kilometers (4 miles) under oceans.
What is the thickness of the earth's crust?
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.
What is the outer bit of earth called?
It is called the crust
What is thinnest under the oceans and thickest through the continents?
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the oceans due to oceanic crust being thinner and denser, while it is thickest through the continents where continental crust is thicker and less dense. The difference in thickness is due to the process of plate tectonics, where oceanic crust is constantly being created at mid-ocean ridges and destroyed at subduction zones.
Layer of the crust has a average of thickness of 5 miles?
Sounds right to me. Also remember that the earth's crust is thicker under the continents (land) than under the ocean where it becomes thinner.
What is the radius of Earth's crust?
The approximate radius of the Earth's center to it's surface is about 6,371 kilometers, which is about 3.959 miles.
How wide is the crust?
The Earth's crust can vary in thickness, but on average it is about 5-70 kilometers (3-44 miles) thick. However, it can be much thicker under mountain ranges and thinner under the ocean floor.
Which layer is thinnest under the oceans?
The layer that is thinnest under the oceans is the crust. While it is thinnest in those underwater regions, it is the thickest in the regions where mountains are.
Is the Earth's crust thicker under the oceans or the continents?
Earth's crust is far thicker under the continents.
Where is the crust thicker - under the continental shelf or under the oceans?
The crust is typically thicker under the continental shelf compared to under the oceans. This is because the continental crust is made of lighter granite rocks which are less dense than the basaltic rocks of the oceanic crust, resulting in thicker continental crust.
What is the depth below the earth's surface in centimeters in the crust?
Under the continents, the earth crust is on average around 50 kilometers thick, which is 50,000 meters or 5,000,000 centimeters. Under the oceans, the earth crust is on average around 7 kilometers thick, which is 7,000 meters or 700,000 centimeters.
Which layer is the thinnest under the oceans and the thickest in the mountains?
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the oceans and thickest in the mountains.
