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mantle rock

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mantle rock
n.
See regolith.


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Principal investigator Prof Roger Searle, in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, said: "The problem is that we don't know how fast these volcanoes form or if they all come from melting the same piece of mantle rock.
In the May 3 Nature, Head and volcanologist Lionel Wilson of Lancaster University in England describe a model of a kimberlite eruption that explains the resulting mix of diamonds, spherules, and mantle rock in a carrot-shaped deposit.
144]Nd ratios of crustal and mantle rocks are relatively small.
 
 
 
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