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How thick are each of Earth's layers?

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Answer:

well the crust is big and the mantel is bigger and the core is small

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How thick is each layer of earth?
Continental Crust 32 km (avg.) or ?? miles Oceanic Crust 8 km (avg.) or ?? miles Mantle 2,900 km or ?? miles Outer Core 2,200 km or ?? miles Inner Core1,250 km or ?? miles * NOTE* the thickness of...
How thick is each layer of the Earth?
The crust is 19 miles/33km thickThe upper mantle is 415 miles/667km thickThe lower mantle is 1365 miles/2200km thickThe outer core is 1405 miles/2265km thickThe inner core is 1520 miles/2440km thick
What are the four layers of the earth and how thick is each section?
Crust, roughly 25 mi. Mantle, circa 1,800 mi. Outer core, about 2,260km. Inner core, near 1,220.
What is the function of each of the layer of the earth?
Basically as follows- Crust- The "shell" and barrier that keeps our earth from being a lava planet. Mantle- Soft "Clay-like" rock that is hot and convection currents here cause the movements of the...
Describe each layer of the earth?
the crust is the skin. it is the rigid outer layer. it is thickest under mountains and thinnest under oceans. the mantle has: lithosphere, mantle, athenosphere. the lithosphere is the top layer of...