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To: Global2010

If it weren’t for the molten core keeping the plate techtonics going and causing earthqukes, the land would erode away to settle on the floor of the oceans.

That molten core also gives us our magnetic field which protects us and prevents the solar wind from slowly stripping our atmosphere away.


18 posted on 08/11/2010 6:25:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

Thanks for articulating that way better than I did.


47 posted on 08/12/2010 10:07:11 AM PDT by Global2010 (Congratulations to Dware for the FR Mussel Eating Fundraiser.)
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