The atlas · Interior · The layers
Outline · being written
The crust
The thin outer skin, why it is thicker under continents than under oceans, and what it is made of.
- Page type
- An encyclopaedia entry
- Collection
- Interior, the layers
- Where
- The top few tens of kilometres
- Status
- Planned and outlined. Every fact in it will be checked against a named source and listed on Sources before it goes up.
Read alongside
- Surface to Core Explorer
- Inside the Earth Lesson
- The mantle Encyclopaedia · outline
- The core Encyclopaedia · outline