Articles about "mantle"
Six Things to Know About the Earth's Mantle
A look at six different aspects of the Earth's mantle.
http://geology.about.com/od/mantle/tp/mantleintro.htm
Today's Mantle, a Guided Tour: Into the Mantle, Part 6
A tour of the mantle as we know it today leads downward from here to 'hell', or the D'' layer.
http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa031598.htm
Sounding the Deep Earth: Into the Mantle, Part 4
Seismology enables us to make 'ultrasound baby pictures' of the Earth's mantle.
http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa030198.htm
The Diamond Zone: Into the Mantle 2
Diamonds are actual pieces of the mantle that you can wear on your hand or ear.
http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa021598.htm
The Secret Ingredient: Into the Mantle, Part 7
The final installment reveals a secret about the mantle, and why ours is so different from those of the other planets: it's the water.
http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa032298.htm
The Big Squeeze: Into the Mantle, Part 5
Squeezing data from stones with the diamond-anvil cell has revolutionized mantle studies.
http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa030898.htm
A Hotspot Alternative
Mantle plumes--those big burps of superhot magma from the deepest mantle--aren't the only theory in town any more when it comes to hotspots.
http://geology.about.com/od/platetectonics/a/nohotspots.htm
The Core-Mantle Boundary - The End of D-Double-Prime?
The mantle's mysterious D-double-prime layer is offered a new name honoring a real Earth scientist instead of his outmoded model.
http://geology.about.com/od/mantle/a/cmb.htm
Geology of Venus
It's only slightly smaller, formed in the same neighborhood of the solar system, and has a large iron core and rocky silicate mantle. Like Earth, its crust ...
http://geology.about.com/od/venus/a/aa_venus.htm
The Lava-Lamp Earth
More precisely, it's the Earth's mantle that seems to behave that way, but the mantle—the white-hot, stony part between the iron core and the thin layer of ...
http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa032899.htm
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