What is another word for solid earth?

Pronunciation: [sˈɒlɪd ˈɜːθ] (IPA)

Solid earth is often referred to as the lithosphere, which includes the Earth's crust and uppermost portion of the mantle. Another term used to describe solid earth is geosphere, which encompasses all of the physical components of the Earth, including the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. The term bedrock is also often used to describe the solid, underlying layer of the Earth's crust. The term terra firma is used to describe stable, solid ground, particularly in a nautical context. Finally, the term subsoil refers to the layer beneath the topsoil which consists of weathered materials and minerals.

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What are the hypernyms for Solid earth?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Solid earth

  • Cimourdain knew everything and nothing. He knew everything about science, and nothing at all about life. Hence his inflexibility.Cimourdain believed that, in social geneses, the extreme point is the solid earth; an error peculiar to minds which replace reason with logic.
    Victor Hugo
  • They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.
    Hermann Hesse
  • Every artificial excavation—every well and cellar—every cut for a fort, common road, railway, or canal—every quarry—every tunnel through a mountain—and every pit and gallery of a mine bored into the solid earth, furnish means of investigating its interior. Still more do the inland precipices, and the rocky promontories and headlands along the rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans; the naked mountain-sides ribbed with strata, that bound the defiles, gorges, and valleys; the ruins accumulated at the feet of lofty pinnacles and barriers, and those that have been transported and scattered, far and wide, over the earth; present us with striking features of the internal structure of our planet. Most of all, do the inclined strata push up their hard edges, in varied succession, and thus faithfully disclose the form and substance of the deep interior, as it exists many miles and leagues beneath the observer's feet.
    Gideon Mantell
  • Whether we speak of the cedar, the oak, the lichens, or the grasses, all equally derive their support from the elements afforded by the mineral world, which, in its widest sense, includes not only the solid earth, but its waters, and all its fiuids—its atmosphere, and all its gases.
    Gideon Mantell
  • She said faintly, “Are you...real?” Amusement showed in his face. “Real?” he said. “Define reality and I can answer you.” He waved a hand. “Look into solid earth, into rock, and see the galaxies of all Creation. What you call reality melts; there is a whirling, a spinning of forces, a dance of motes and atoms. Some of them we call planets, one of them is Earth. Nothingness within nothingness enclosing nothing, that is reality. Tell me what you want, and I can answer.”
    Keith Roberts

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