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Six example sentences with crust, each labelled with its topic.
Beneath the ocean the crust is only six kilometers thick, a fraction of what sits under a continent.
Science
Drilling projects have never got through the crust, so almost everything below it is inferred from earthquake waves.
Environment
Geologists warned that the crust here slips a few centimeters each decade, so the tower rests on sliding bearings.
Architecture
In Iceland you can walk through a rift where the crust is pulling apart a couple of centimeters every year.
Travel
The deepest borehole ever drilled went twelve kilometers into the crust before the heat made the rock too soft to continue.
Technology
The mining game lets you dig through the entire crust in an afternoon, which no real drill has ever managed.
Gaming
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