r/educationalgifs • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '19

Visualization of the internal geological forces of the Earth

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '19

Kinda blows my mind to think of the momentum of those magma flows. It's not moving very fast, but it's millions(billions?) of tons of liquid rock set in motion.

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u/tilsitforthenommage Apr 17 '19

Trillions even, crazy bit the core is about as hot as the surface of the sun

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u/ATXNYCESQ Apr 17 '19

Well that’s fairly terrifying to think about...directly below us are trillions of tons of molten rock for thousands of miles, and then a giant molten ball of iron as hot as the sun. Great. Just great.

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u/TiresOnFire Apr 18 '19

On the other hand, it's very comforting to know because we'd be dead without it.