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


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"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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