{"id":102797,"date":"2022-04-24T19:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T14:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=102797"},"modified":"2022-04-24T20:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T14:45:40","slug":"sources-of-information-about-the-interior-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/sources-of-information-about-the-interior-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERIOR. [ PART 1]: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 24 April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u25a0 SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERIOR. [ PART 1]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>#interiorofearth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25a1 DIRECT SOURCES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 Deep earth mining and drilling reveal the nature of rocks deep down the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 But as mining and drilling are not practically possible beyond a certain depth, they don\u2019t reveal much information about the earth\u2019s interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 Mponeng gold mine (deepest mine in the world) and TauTona gold mine (second deepest mine in the world) in South Africa are deepest mines reaching to a depth of only 3.9 km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 And the deepest drilling is only about 12 km deep hole bored by the Soviet Union in the 1970s over the Kola Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c7 Volcanic eruption forms another source of obtaining direct information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d9e9ee\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/upsc-daily-static-quiz-24-april-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UPSC Daily Static Quiz \u2013 24 April 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#d3e7f1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/upsc-daily-current-affairs-quiz-24-april-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UPSC Daily Current Affairs Quiz: 24 April 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u25a0 SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERIOR. 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