Sentences with phrase «thinning of ocean crust»

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On Tuesday scientists boarded a research vessel bound for a part of the Indian Ocean where Earth's crust is thin.

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.

So, the nightmare scenario would be that, if Cassini was just left to run out of fuel and careen uncontrollably around the Saturn system, there would be a small chance that it could crash into Enceladus in the future and any hitchhiking microbes on board might set up home in this ocean that lies beneath the thin crust.

It is most likely flexing of the crust, it is relatively thin at the deep ocean floor in comparison with much thicker continental shelf.

They ignore volumes of geothermal energy that move through the crust, especially under the oceans where the crust is thinner and more perforated.