Sentences with phrase «thick outer core»

The planetary architecture that provides Earth's sheltering field has been broadly understood for several decades now: a solid - iron inner core roughly the size of the moon, surrounded by a 1,400 - mile - thick outer core of liquid iron and nickel, with 1,800 miles of solid mantle above, topped by a crust of slowly drifting tectonic plates.

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Remove the outer leaves from the cauliflower, cut it into quarters and remove most of the thick core, then cut each quarter into two or three chunks.

Besides having the right mix of ingredients and pressures, this range defines a well - known transition zone within the mantle, the 2900 - kilometer - or - so - thick layer of slowly circulating material that lies between Earth's crust and its outer core of molten iron.

Under a black outer layer there was a thick layer of pink and a core that was harder and greenish gray.

per cubic foot Mass: 1.07 x 1020 tons Features: Numerous 3 - to 6 - mile - wide blobs of crystallized material and evidence of layers hundreds of miles thick and perhaps a 360 - mile - wide innermost inner core of iron Activity: Convective currents in the outer core give rise to a dynamo process — a natural generator.

per cubic foot Mass: 81 x 1018 tons Features: 43 - mile - thick outer crust; 788 - mile - thick mantle; 248 - mile - wide iron - rich core Activity: Tectonically dead.

There's the familiar thin crust of continents and ocean floors; the thick mantle of hot, semisolid rock; the molten metal outer core; and the solid iron inner core.

Most of the full force of the heat from the Core punches its way to the outer edge without much delay at all and ends up in the white light Corona, which is millions of miles thick and millions of °C hot.