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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2212m&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2212. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Earth, Geophysics

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The Earth's mantle is composed of a thick layer of solid rock extending from the molten alloy of iron which is the Earth's CORE, 2891 km below the surface, to the so-called Mohorovicic discontinuity or Moho, a few kilometers below the surface. Roughly, it can be considered as a succession of spherical concentric shells which are, from the shallower to the deeper: the lithospheric mantle (from t...

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