He traveled extensively to study rock complexes of varying types, ages, and depths of formation, including two that exposed the Mohorovi i discontinuity between crustal and mantle rocks of magmatic arcs.
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There aren't any cracks down in the mantle, so it must travel along the microscopic edges of the grains of minerals in the mantle rock, kind of like water rising through a tightly-packed sponge.
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However viscosity is difficult to observe because creep experiments of mantle rocks take thousands of years to observe and the ambient temperature and pressure conditions are not easy to attain for a long enough time.
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The temporal association with this Ordovician tectonism suggests that this magmatic activity may be related to fracturing of mantle rock at the junction of two Taconic age tectonic salients that intersect in the New York region.
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Due to the high viscosity of the Earth's mantle, the flow of mantle rocks which controls the rebound process is very slow at a rate of about 1 cm / year near the center of rebound area today.
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In the movie, world governments unite to build a manned craft that can burrow through 2, 900 kilometers of solid mantle rock and survive the core's scorching heat _ comparable to that at the surface of the sun.
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A hot, thin plate is a weak plate, one that cannot support the weight of all the mountains on top of it : As a result it bends downward, and in so doing it displaces heavy mantle rock with light crustal rock.
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The supercritical water, which is hot and more buoyant than the surrounding rock, rises into the overlying mantle where it lowers the pressure in ( and thus the melting temperature of ) the mantle rock to the point of actual melting, generating magma.
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The pre-4.50 b . y . high upper-mantle rocks, the dominant rocks now preserved beneath Archean cratons, are not of partially-fractionated mantle as predicted by conventional interpretations, but instead are extremely refractory differentiates, depleted of most silicate materials that could have contributed partial melts of either continental or oceanic crustal rocks.
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There are also a few places on land where mantle rock has been pushed to the surface by tectonic activity, most notably the Tablelands region of Gros Morne National Park in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and St . John's Island, Egypt or Zabargad in the Red Sea . ( Also Troodos Ophiolite, Lizard complex, Semail Ophiolite, and other Ophiolites)
