What Is the Ground Made Of? — Data Stories
The ten most common elements in Earth's crust, by mass. Almost half of the rock under your… Interactive Data Stories on MyLeoNes: real open data, animated.
What Is the Ground Made Of?
The ten most common elements in Earth's crust, by mass
What can we learn?
- Almost half of the rock under your feet is oxygen — not as a gas, but locked inside minerals like quartz and feldspar.
- Oxygen and silicon together make up about three quarters of the crust. Sand on a beach is mostly the two of them joined: silicon dioxide.
- Gold, silver and copper don't even make the top ten — that is part of why they are precious.
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