Crust

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4482.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4482. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planetary Physics

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The thin outer layer of a differentiated planetary body. Crusts consist of rock and/or ice—rock predominating in the inner solar system, ice in the outer—and have a different composition from the underlying mantle. Primary crust is the surface layer formed when the planet first differentiates. It preserves the cratering record from the early bombardment in the solar system's history. Primary crus...

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