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The Maximum Depth of the Earth’s Crust Consider the crustal rocks of the Earth to be a flu...

The Maximum Depth of the Earth’s Crust Consider the crustal rocks of the Earth to be a fluid of density 3.0 × 103 kg/m3. Under this assumption, the pressure at a depth h within the crust is P = Pat + pgh. If the greatest pressure crustal rock can sustain before crumbling is 1.2 × 103Pa, find the maximum depth of the Earth’s crust. (Below this depth the crust changes from a solid to a plasticlike material.)

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