Earth's Interior
Evidence from Seismic waves
- Reflection
- Refraction
Seismic Wave Behavior through earth
Internal Structure of the Earth
- Crust
- Oceanic crust
- Continental crust
- Mohorovicic' Discontinuity = Moho
- Mantle
- Lithosphere
- Asthenosphere
- Mesosphere
- Gutenberg Discontinuity
- Core
- Seismic Wave Behaviors
- P-wave refraction = Shadow zone.
- S-wave refraction = Shadow zone.
- Subdivisions of the core
- Outer Core
- Inner Core
- Evidence for core
- Seismic waves
- Meteorites
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