Giant Slab of Earth's Crust Found Near Core

Giant Slab of Earth's Crust Found Near Core

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	May 18 2006, 05:08 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	Giant Slab of Earth's Crust Found Near Core http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/...side_earth.html A huge slab of folded Earth that scientists think used to be part of the ocean floor has been detected near the planet's core. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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ljk4-1 Giant Slab of Earth's Crust Found Near Core May 18 2006, 05:08 PM

Richard Trigaux WOW! Conceptually we were accustomed to the ... May 18 2006, 05:51 PM

Jyril QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ May 18 2006, 08... May 20 2006, 09:40 AM

Richard Trigaux QUOTE (Jyril @ May 20 2006, 09:40 AM) the... May 22 2006, 05:21 AM

The Messenger Atlantis? May 18 2006, 06:08 PM

tty QUOTE (The Messenger @ May 18 2006, 08:08... May 19 2006, 07:37 PM

BruceMoomaw I always thought the place was falling apart. May 19 2006, 02:12 AM

chris So that's where I left it... May 19 2006, 08:53 AM

DonPMitchell Wow. That's remarkable. But I always thought... May 20 2006, 07:11 PM

tty QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ May 20 2006, 09:11 ... May 20 2006, 07:53 PM

edstrick One reason that basaltic crust can be subducted is... May 21 2006, 09:32 AM

DonPMitchell QUOTE (edstrick @ May 21 2006, 02:32 AM) ... May 22 2006, 01:35 AM

BruceMoomaw QUOTE (edstrick @ May 21 2006, 09:32 AM) ... May 22 2006, 10:55 AM

Richard Trigaux The two last posts strongly suggest that there are... May 22 2006, 07:40 PM

edstrick That xenolith is more likely a piece ripped loose ... May 22 2006, 08:25 AM

ljk4-1 Minerals Go Dark Near Core Of Earth Washington DC... May 30 2006, 03:44 PM

The Messenger QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 30 2006, 09:44 A... May 30 2006, 05:02 PM

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