what was this earth made of?
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Most of the earth is made of iron and nickel.  This might not appear to be true at first because we see that the ground does not feel like metal, but the earth's inner and outer cores consist primarily of molten iron and nickel.  The earth's crust is only a few miles thick (at the thickest) and floats on top of the molten layers.
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how do you think the earth was created? Or you?
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Carbon, Iron and Nickle. In that order I believe. \n\nThat is of the earth itself... If you mean of the planet including the atmosphere, then its Hydrogen and Helium.
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We are all related.  You will see scientists, who mainly believe in the big bang theory, will often describe us as "stardust".  The reason for this is that when planetary nebula are being created, and a star results, the leftover matter from the new star is what planets condense from.  They are made of the same basic materials.  \n\nIn addition, every basic element on the periodic table from hydrogen to iron (including carbon; e.g. "carbon-based life forms" such as us) is naturally produced inside the sun, and every larger element can be produced from the same basic ingredients by other processes.  \n\nIt is no coincidence that we (and everything else) are made of the same elements as the rest of the solar system and much of the universe.
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is it from this planet itself?
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it's the core of the earth. lava. melted rock.etc
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rocks are made up of minerals
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Current models of Solar System formation indicate that all the  solid objects in the solar system (planets, moon, asteroids, etc) formed around the same time.  The oldest, unaltered piece of solid material we have found is about 4.6 billion years old (it is a particular type of meteorite).  So we place the formation of the Earth at the time period.\n\nWe can't find any Earth rocks that old, as earth has experienced far to much volcanic and techtonic activity in the past to preserve any of these original rocks.  We can and do find rocks as old as 3.8 billion years in the northeast portions of Canada, and even older samples have been found in the Australia region.
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Actually the CORE of the earth is one of the layers. It is liquid. The earth is like a tootsie pop: hard outer shell, creamy middle.
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earth of course......\nthere is a layer in our blue planet called the mantle which lies between the outer crust and the core.. its the biggest layer even...
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According to the Word of God, Adamic mankind has been in existance, in this World as we know it, for about 6000 years.\n\nIt also says that a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day, with the Lord.\n\nSo no one knows how old the earth is. It could be millions of years old. It could also be a little more than 6 thousand.\n\nJOB 38:4\n   4    Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.\n   5    Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?\n   6    Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;\n   7    When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?\n\nTo know more, go here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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The earth's crust is composed of Quartz, SiO2, or Silicon Oxide, and Feldspar......both are contained in Granite......The earth's crust is made of Metamorphic rock mainly....
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We are aliens ourselves! The matter that makes up our bodies was created millions of years before the earth existed!
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Well not sure if the "God" thing is "bull-crappie" if I was then things would be alot simpler.\n\nBut theories of evolution and studies of early earth history suggest that the earth was a small object of minerals orbiting a sun that was impacted by hundreds of asteroids in early live, one of which turned into the moon we have now. These astroids brought with them a wealth of minerals and elements and even our water.\n\nWith a hot inner core and a large body of water on the surface land masses were created as magma erupted in fissures from the bottom of the see. Large sections of the crust of the earth shifed and moved over billions of years creating continents.\n\nLife started deep in the bottom of the ocean as simple bacteria, ever evolving into more and more complex versions. Viruses, single celled organisms. Ever complicating and changing. This life took great hold of earth, earth was abundant with it. Eventually this life would spill onto the surface, breathing in the thick carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.\n\nLife evolved ever onward and will never die off the planet, until that day when the Sun erupts with such force and radiation that it envelopes and obliterates our home and our past. Our legacy.\n\nGuess we better find a new planet in a few billion years.
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roito..  i'm no scientist, but the way i see it, since so many of our other elements have been hypothesized to be formed in a solar furnace, i'd take berilium to be no exception.  it's probably just left over from the nebula that produced our solar system.  However, astral bodies that collide with the earth also carry with them certain chemicals, so the source of berilium on this planet can also be attributed to some degree to those, as well.  \nhere's a neat factoid for ye..  protein strains that are slammed into the earth at those fantastic speeds known to meteors, upon impact, form amino acids...  if i can recall that episode of NOVA i saw on m'local PBS station correctly.  ;)
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God created Earth and it underwent some processes.\nGenerally people use the theory of Big Bang.\n\nBased on my observations, this type of question is most likely to get little response.\nWhy?\nBecause people do not know about how Earth was really created. So do I.
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The Earth was formed around 4.57 billion (4.57×109)[1] years ago