Section of Earth
Relative volume of the solid and liquid mass of the Earth, from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition. Figuier proposed that the crust was a thin layer, about thirty miles thick, floating above a liquid core. This image has been color enhanced.
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