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  • Thumbnail for Mantle plume
    A mantle plume is a proposed mechanism of convection within the Earth's mantle, hypothesized to explain anomalous volcanism. Because the plume head partially...
    49 KB (6,056 words) - 07:46, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mantle wedge
    as earthquake maps. Subducting oceanic slabs carry large amounts of water; this water lowers the melting temperature of the above mantle wedge. Melting...
    6 KB (748 words) - 12:21, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plate tectonics
    lithosphere, the rigid outer shell of the planet including the crust and upper mantle, is fractured into seven or eight major plates (depending on how they are...
    113 KB (13,798 words) - 13:22, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Earth's internal heat budget
    centers (zones of mantle upwelling), as observed in the global map of Earth heat flow. The radioactive decay of elements in the Earth's mantle and crust results...
    18 KB (2,115 words) - 11:18, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hotspot (geology)
    locales thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle. Examples include the Hawaii, Iceland, and...
    33 KB (3,948 words) - 23:47, 3 September 2024
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    Subduction (redirect from Mantle cell)
    lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. Where one tectonic...
    67 KB (8,251 words) - 14:22, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of longest mountain chains on Earth
    lower plate is slowly absorbed by the mantle. Where the two plates pass one another, heated rock from the mantle can burst through the crust to form volcanoes...
    9 KB (465 words) - 17:59, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mantle Site
    The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex...
    35 KB (3,623 words) - 19:22, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Divergent boundary
    Current research indicates that complex convection within the Earth's mantle allows material to rise to the base of the lithosphere beneath each divergent...
    6 KB (761 words) - 16:33, 15 September 2024
  • J. R. R. Tolkien's maps, depicting his fictional Middle-earth and other places in his legendarium, helped him with plot development, guided the reader...
    24 KB (2,836 words) - 12:39, 25 August 2024
  • intraplate volcanism. A mantle plume is a proposed mechanism of convection of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle. Because the plume head partly...
    97 KB (11,934 words) - 03:47, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Basalt
    melting of the mantle. The high pressure in the upper mantle (due to the weight of the overlying rock) raises the melting point of mantle rock, so that...
    69 KB (7,812 words) - 04:14, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convergent boundary
    convection cells in the mantle. Convection cells are the result of heat generated by the radioactive decay of elements in the mantle escaping to the surface...
    20 KB (2,374 words) - 13:33, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Internal structure of the Moon
    differentiated body, being composed of a geochemically distinct crust, mantle, and planetary core. This structure is believed to have resulted from the...
    9 KB (1,034 words) - 23:42, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mohorovičić discontinuity
    Moho boundary, or just Moho – is the boundary between the crust and the mantle of Earth. It is defined by the distinct change in velocity of seismic waves...
    15 KB (1,683 words) - 15:36, 11 September 2024
  • deep in the Earth's mantle. Earlier studies of mantle-derived rocks from many places have shown that hydrocarbons from the mantle region can be found...
    69 KB (7,358 words) - 15:55, 20 September 2024
  • Principal photography began on May 7, 2024, in Northumberland, with Anthony Dod Mantle serving as the cinematographer. Filming wrapped on July 29. The film was...
    18 KB (1,545 words) - 20:40, 22 September 2024
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    Elijah (redirect from Mantle of Prophecy)
    Elijah, in company with Elisha, approaches the Jordan. He rolls up his mantle and strikes the water. The water immediately divides and Elijah and Elisha...
    108 KB (13,970 words) - 20:01, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ceres (dwarf planet)
    data suggest Ceres to be partially differentiated into a muddy (ice-rock) mantle/core and a less dense but stronger crust that is at most thirty per cent...
    130 KB (12,686 words) - 18:27, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leporicypraea mappa
    map cowry was named on the basis of its distinct color pattern, because of the longitudinal lines and the easily distinguishable and sinuous mantle groove...
    8 KB (736 words) - 02:43, 17 June 2024
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