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    Illustration Showing The Earth

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    The Earth has four main layers from outermost to innermost - a thin rocky crust, a thick viscous mantle extending to a depth of 2900 km, a 2200 km thick liquid outer core of iron and nickel, and a solid inner core of iron-nickel alloy with a radius of 1278 km. Below the crust, the mantle is semi-solid and composed of silicate minerals, while the liquid outer core generates Earth's magnetic field and the inner core reaches extremely high temperatures of over 5000°C at the planet's center.

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    Illustration Showing The Earth

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    The Earth has four main layers from outermost to innermost - a thin rocky crust, a thick viscous mantle extending to a depth of 2900 km, a 2200 km thick liquid outer core of iron and nickel, and a solid inner core of iron-nickel alloy with a radius of 1278 km. Below the crust, the mantle is semi-solid and composed of silicate minerals, while the liquid outer core generates Earth's magnetic field and the inner core reaches extremely high temperatures of over 5000°C at the planet's center.

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    The Earth has four main layers from outermost to innermost - a thin rocky crust, a thick viscous mantle extending to a depth of 2900 km, a 2200 km thick liquid outer core of iron and nickel, and a solid inner core of iron-nickel alloy with a radius of 1278 km. Below the crust, the mantle is semi-solid and composed of silicate minerals, while the liquid outer core generates Earth's magnetic field and the inner core reaches extremely high temperatures of over 5000°C at the planet's center.

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    Illustration Showing The Earth

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    Suryasis Dasgupta
    The Earth has four main layers from outermost to innermost - a thin rocky crust, a thick viscous mantle extending to a depth of 2900 km, a 2200 km thick liquid outer core of iron and nickel, and a solid inner core of iron-nickel alloy with a radius of 1278 km. Below the crust, the mantle is semi-solid and composed of silicate minerals, while the liquid outer core generates Earth's magnetic field and the inner core reaches extremely high temperatures of over 5000°C at the planet's center.

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    Illustration showing the Earth's internal structure

    The external layer shows the Earth's surface topography and atmosphere,
    including land, water and clouds. This rocky crust is 10-70 km thick. The mantle
    (red) is a viscous layer of rocks under high pressures and temperatures, extending
    downwards to a depth of around 2900 km. The outer core (yellow) is a liquid layer
    of iron and nickel, around 2200 km thick. The inner core (centre) is a liquid sphere
    of a iron-nickel alloy, with a radius of 1278 km.
    Planet Earth has layers made of different materials: an outer crust, a mantle and a
    core at its centre.
    The crust is a very thin layer of rock basalt below the oceans (10 km thick), and
    granite and sedimentary rocks on the continents (up to 70 km thick). Under the
    crust is the mantle, a semi-solid layer 2830 km thick. It is composed mainly of
    silicate minerals such as olivine. We get clues about its composition when molten
    rock from this layer comes to the surface during volcanic eruptions.
    Below the mantle, the outer core is a layer of slow-moving liquid metal. It
    generates electrical currents as it flows and these create Earths magnetic field.
    Right in the centre of the Earth, the inner core is a solid mass of hot metal
    reaching over 5000 C.

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