earth-crust

But in later times, when Rhea, like other ancient divinities, loses her importance as a ruling deity, Demeter assumes all her functions and attributes, and then becomes the goddess of the life-producing and life-maintaining earth-crust.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

[Footnote 4: I use surface often in its geological significance, meaning earth-crust, and applied to sea-bottom as well as to dry land.]

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863

Such moods, perhaps, often come to the aged, when the hardened earth-crust over their souls shuts them out from spiritual influences.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865

Later, the shrinking and warping earth-crust lifted the rock far above the level of the sea, and it may now be found at the top of the mountain.

The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners

But each time they tried to descend they found the storm near the earth-crust far heavier than at the upper levels.

On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake

Armor is needed; and a Vulcan spirit is making the anvil ring beneath the earth-crust of humanity.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861

If you have ever been to a quarry where the rocks have been blasted and cut away, you have seen a little way down into this earth-crust.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation

Following out the explanation of the aqueous solution, in which the earth-crust constituents are secreted, we find that the rarer and more precious metals do not generally enter into the composition of precious stones -- which fact may advisedly be repeated.

The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

While we were talking about the earth-crust, I daresay you were wishing to know, as I did, how thick it is -- how far down the layers of rocks go, and what lies underneath the lowest layer of all.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation

It is an established fact that the fields, on which our nutritive salts or cell-foods -- our vital sustenance -- are grown, were originally formed from decayed primitive rock and _this primitive earth-crust matter is composed of the same mineral substances that are found in normal blood_.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration