MadSci Network: Earth Sciences
Query:

Subject: Why do the Continents only cover ¼ of the world's surface?

Date: Wed Feb 25 00:52:00 1998
Posted by Charles Russell
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Where did the other ¾ of the "crust" go? I'd be interested in finding
the mass of the moon, and suspect it might be close to thrice the mass 
of the continents.


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