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[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I hope I'm not the only one impressed by the model while disturbed by its inaccuracy of its limitations.

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

...should have put the mantle in rolls.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

All the way to outer core. That's some crusty crust.

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

But that part is true. We see these huge seismic anomalies at the core-mantle boundary that many think is a "slab graveyard" (e.g. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GC009396 ).

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Also pieces of the planet that hit Earth to make the moon.

We do not know for certain.

[-] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Flat earth confirmed

[-] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 10 points 4 months ago

Good.

Now repeat it with an ingrown nail.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 17 points 4 months ago

Deep time has seen horrors beyond all comprehension.

[-] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago

Even partially resorbed earth crust/ ingrown nail? Maybe. :)

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

A layered stack of about 8 towels is a great way to visualise a convergent-boundary of two tectonic plates.

Pushing at either end of the towel stack gives a basic simulation of the orogeny that produces mountain ranges, and shows the strata-deformation that occurs.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Slipping into those DMs (Deep Mantle)

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

What are you doing step-crust?

[-] Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

If that blue towel is wet maybe you'll find some peridotite.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Inner core should have the orange one. Too cold like that

this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
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