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Meanings of earth's crust in English

Russian
земная кора
Portuguese
crosta
Catalan
escorça de la terra
Spanish
corteza
Wikidata

Earth's outer layer.

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        Examples for "crust of earth"
        Examples for "crust of earth"
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        Another, as an immense crust of earth floating on the water.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        2
        Another, as an immense crust of earth floating on water.
        Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 / France and the Net...
        3
        Beneath the thin crust of earth, Rawhead smelt the sky.
        Complete Books of Blood
        4
        The spot they were led to was evidently a mere crust of earth covering fierce subterranean fires.
        Blown to Bits: The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
        5
        I am told he would go through the crust of earth for the backbone of an idio-ilio-something-saurus.
        The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5
        1
        How thick do you suppose the crust of the earth is, anyway?
        The Wrong Twin
        2
        The rocky outside of the ball is called the crust of the earth.
        Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)
        3
        What would be the consequences of breaking through the crust of the earth?
        A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
        4
        The yet elastic and yielding crust of the earth obeyed the fluid forces beneath.
        A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
        5
        We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 / A Magazi...
        Usage of earth's crust in English
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        He said the complex earthquake created long-lasting movements in the earth's crust.
        Radio NZ
        2
        This place is a Pandora's box sealed over by the earth's crust.
        Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
        3
        There was no foundation; the bulwarks of earth's crust had given away.
        Son of Power
        4
        The Tertiary period included epochs when the earth's crust was singularly unquiet.
        The Elements of Geology
        5
        Mineral food is some constituent of the earth's crust used as food.
        Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management
        6
        The fossils found in the rocks of the earth's crust support this view.
        The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
        7
        Think of the over-thrusts and the folding and shearing of the earth's crust.
        Time and Change
        8
        We had turned in the ice and sped upward toward the earth's crust.
        At the Earth's Core
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        The earth's crust is variously estimated in the matter of thickness.
        Remarks
        10
        The wilderness is one of the most marked spots on the earth's crust.
        Quiet Talks about Jesus
        11
        So it is with almost all the other constituents of the earth's crust.
        Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
        12
        All chemical processes in the earth's crust were probably more rapid.
        Time and Change
        13
        She has lifted the earth's crust to form a great plateau.
        The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
        14
        Movements of the earth's crust, plication of strata, origin of mountains, earthquakes, etc.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 / A Magazin...
        15
        An earthquake is a movement of the earth's crust, caused by volcanic action.
        The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 32...
        16
        Asbestos, banned in most countries, is a natural mineral found in the earth's crust.
        The Irish Times