While we were talking the mighty iron mole had bored its way over a mile into the rock of the earth's crust.
We had turned in the ice and sped upward toward the earth's crust. Thank God!
I ridiculed the assumption that there was an inner world and that these wires led downward through the earth's crust to the surface of Pellucidar.
The finding of the telegraph-instrument practically assured me that David Innes had driven Perry's iron mole back through the earth's crust to the buried world of Pellucidar; but what adventures had befallen him since his return?
The science of the
earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well.
They had proceeded for a half or three-quarters of a mile when, at a turning of the gorge, Tarzan saw before him a narrow valley cut deep into the living rock of the
earth's crust, with lofty mountain ranges bounding it upon the south.
In the diagram, each horizontal line has hitherto been supposed to represent a thousand generations, but each may represent a million or hundred million generations, and likewise a section of the successive strata of the
earth's crust including extinct remains.
The geologist, who is fully impressed with the vast oscillations of level which have affected the
earth's crust within late periods, will not fear to speculate on the recent elevation of the Mexican platform, or, more probably, on the recent submergence of land in the West Indian Archipelago, as the cause of the present zoological separation of North and South America.
The strongest fluctuations of the
Earth's crust in Turkey were recorded in 1999 in the Marmara Sea region.
The epicentre of thequake was stated to be 22 kilometers east of Sibi, and 30 kilometers inside the
earth's crust.
Over 90 percent of
Earth's crust - the thin outer layer of the planet - consists of silicate minerals.
"But we have never drilled through
Earth's crust and into its interior."
Earth's crust - the outer layer of the Earth