Questions tagged [crust]
For question dealing with the Earth's crust or other planemos.
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Could higher tidal forces actually lead to fewer earthquakes?
Counter-factually, suppose the moon was nearer and/or heavier and tidal delta-g forces were significantly higher.
My first thought is that this would lead to more earthquakes since crust deformation ...
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How many relatively pure elements appear in significant quantities in Earth's crust?
By "relatively pure elements appear in significant (at least visible) quantities" I'm imagining things like veins of gold, carbon (as coal) or sulfur for example. Purity varies, and the ...
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Mountain formation and stress release?
I have been studying mountain formation, and have some questions about how orogeny and plate stress release are related...
Does orogeny contribute to the release of accumulated stress within the ...
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Do subducted continents rise up again through ridges?
Layman here, sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a geology friend who recently told me that plate tectonics is like how warm milk cools on top to form thin solid layers. The convection cells in ...
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Is the earth crust under the pacific ocean heavier than in the rest of the planet?
Please bear with me, since I don't know much about geography or geology.
I was looking at an earth globe and noticed the pacific ocean covers virtually half of the planet (more or less). How is it ...
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If the universe (and our galaxy) has about twice as many oxygen atoms as carbon ones, why does Earth have 300 times as many oxygen atoms as carbon?
A (relatively) recent 'Sky & Telescope' magazine feature story mentioned how little carbon the Earth has, and how some scientists' models predict we should somehow have even less....
So I looked ...
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Is the Theia impact partly responsible for the distribution of mantle plumes?
I was looking at a map of the distribution of mantle plumes, and was wondering if they could be residual material that was either brought here or affected by the Theia impact.
It seems to me that this ...
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When was the thickness of the Earth's crust calculated?
When was the average thickness of the Earth's crust first calculated or estimated? What did scientists know about the thickness of the Earth's crust before the 20th century? In what interval(s) fell ...
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Displacement-Length scaling relationship on extraterrestrial faults
Faults on Earth share a similar displacement/length ratio of around 0.03 which scales from very small faults to very large faults. Would this apply to faults on other planets and if so, are there any ...
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Does this support Hapgood's Earth Crust Displacement Theory?
I'm no Geologist by any standard but I'm quite intrigued by what goes on below our feet.
I came across this article that states there's a new or (confirmed) partially melted layer in the athenosphere (...
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Why is there gold in the earth's crust?
I would naively assume that when the earth was formed and still molten, all the heavy stuff such as gold would have sunk to the centre, so almost nothing would remain in the earth's crust where humans ...
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Is there a seismic discontinuity between the lithosphere and asthenosphere?
I've been learning about seismic discontinuities, mainly the 5 defined ones - Conorod discontinuity, Mohorovicic discontinuity, Repetti discontinuity, Gutenberg discontinuity, and Lehmann ...
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How likely are caverns inside the mantle?
Almost everyone wrongly assumes that the Earth's mantle is liquid, but it isn't (only the outer core is). Is it possible then that there are hollow spaces within the mantle, similar to caves in the ...
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If people aim to reach the mantle, why don't they just use volcano craters?
Once in a while aspiring people aim to drill through the Earth's crust to reach the mantle, but why do they want that when the mantle is actually on or very close to the surface in volcano craters? ...
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Is There a Correlation Between Earthquake Magnitude and the Deformation Observed in the Rock?
I've been doing a little geology research. One of the topics that I noticed was the existence of "deformations" that appear in the rock layers if an earthquake has occurred. Smaller ...
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