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Are the continents floating on top of water or is it just earth and then the crust?

#earthsciences

I heard that if you dig deep enough anywhere in the world, you'll reach water.

1) Is that true?

2) Does that mean that the continents are floating on the water? What is the scientific explantion for why it doesn't sink?

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If you dig you will reach groundwater, which is just infiltrated rainwater that is locked in the pore spaces of soil and rock. The continents are 'floating' on top of the Mantle, which lies beneath the earths crust and is not exactly liquid, more like melted plastic, which can flow, but not like water. The water you hit when you dig is still hundreds of miles above the place where the crust becomes the mantle.

Reference: B.S. in Geology + 10 years experience

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