mantle rock
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mantle rock
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Support for this picture came from an analysis of earthquake waves rippling across the boundary between crustal and mantle rock.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024
Drilling below the seabed in the mid–Atlantic Ocean, they have collected a core of rock more than 1 kilometer long, consisting largely of peridotite, a kind of upper mantle rock.
From Science Magazine • May 25, 2023
Instead, differences in the type of mantle rock make it melt at different temperatures.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022
The ascending mantle rock is what makes a mantle plume.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022
See larger image With these residuary soils of the driftless area, the mantle rock of glaciated tracts is in sharp contrast.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.
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