mantle rock

collocation in English

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mantle
noun
uk
/ˈmæn.təl/us
/ˈmæn.t̬əl/
formal
the responsibilities of an important position or job, especially as given from the person who had the job to the person who ...
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rock
noun
uk
/rɒk/us
/rɑːk/
the dry solid part of the earth's surface, or any large piece of this that sticks up out of the ground or ...
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(Definition ofmantleandrockfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It has only been discovered in a small variety of places from uppermantlerockto meteorites.
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Peridotites are important for understanding the deep composition and origin of cratons because peridotite nodules are pieces ofmantlerockmodified by partial melting.
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In the mantle layer called the asthenosphere,mantlerockmelts to make magma, trapping superheated water under great pressure.
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Globally elevated spreading rates then leads to even less-exposed mantle rocks relative to volcanics compared with the present day.
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Such a model assumes that there is no heat exchange between the melt and the surrounding mantle rocks.
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Permeability of partially molten upper mantle rocks from experiments and percolation theory.
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Themantlerockis peridotite.
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We propose that the reduced temperatures reflect cooling of the mantle rocks, following extension and prior to their subsequent 'hot' emplacement.
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Volcanoes near plate boundaries and mid-ocean ridges are built by the decompression melting ofmantlerockthat rises on an upwelling portion of a convection cell to the crustal surface.
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Carbon in the last of these can be sub-divided into that associated with surface, crustal or mantle rocks.
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Anderson and his collaborators investigated the relations between the behavior ofmantlerockunder high pressures and temperatures, phase transformations of mantle minerals, and the generation of earthquakes.
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Minute amounts of stishovite has been found within diamonds, and post-stishovite phases were identified within ultra-high pressure mantle rocks.
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Most likely they are derived from hydrated mantle rocks, probably harzburgites or lherzolites.
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At the same time erosion resulted in stripping of the outer mantle rocks and further modeling of terrain.
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He also performed studies on the distribution of metals present in petroleum, comparing them with the mantle rocks, chondrites, crust, and seawater.
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It was formed from deep sea or mantle rocks.
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Studies of glacial rebound give us information about the flow law of mantle rocks and also past ice sheet history.
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Typical mantle rocks have a higher magnesium to iron ratio and a smaller proportion of silicon and aluminium than the crust.
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