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Creation Day 3: God creates the Earth using His Special Mayim
When God created the Earth, He divided its interior into 3 distinct layers, sort of like a sliced peach . These layers get hotter and more dense the closer you are to the center of the earth. The picture above shows the three main layers of the earth: the crust, the mantle, and the core. The following is a brief description of each of Earth's three main layers.
The crust is the thin rocky, outer layer of the Earth 's surface where we live. Earth's crust occupies just 1% of the earth's volume. The crust is made out of silicon, aluminum, calcium, sodium and potassium. The crust varies in thickness from around 3 miles/ 5 km in the ocean floor (70% of the crust) to around 25 miles/4 0 km on land (continents) where we live . The mantle is is much thicker than the crust at almost 1800 miles/3000 km deep. The mantle makes up about 84% of Earth's total volume. The mantle's temperature ranges from 900 degrees F / 500 C to 8100 degrees F / 4500 C and is made of 100% hot magma (silica and magnesium). The mantle is predominantly solid, but behaves like a slow moving fluid. All of earth's continents float on the mantle. Earth's core is divided into two distinct sections: the outer core and the inner core. The outer core is the only liquid layer of the Earth . It is composed of liquid iron and nickel . The outer core's temperature is about 9000 degrees F / 5000 C . It is about 1430 miles/2300 km thick. The earth's inner core is approximately 1500 miles wide. The inner core is solid iron and nickel. The hot inner core is able to remain solid because of the core's extremely high pressure.
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