Crust Quotes
These results confirm ideas about the way in which fast-spreading oceanic crust is built. This new understanding opens the way to understanding the origin of oceanic crust, which we can best do by deep drilling.
- Jamie Allan

There's a little danger if you start to walk on a really young flow that's just a few minutes old. Then you can step through the crust and then you're going to burn yourself badly. But if you're careful and just realize that you shouldn't go where you're not comfortable going, where it's too hot, then you'll be OK.
- Don Swanson

There is an extensive sand plain extending as far as the eye can see in the vicinity of the drop location. The slope is very shallow and essentially appears flat when you're down there. While the bottom is sand, showing ripples from long shore currents, it is by no means devoid of life. On the contrary, it appeared to be a very productive sand community undoubtedly with lots of mollusks and crustaceans.
- Bill Walsh

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