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Meaning of "upper mantle"

The upper mantle is the layer of the Earth's interior located between the lower mantle and the Earth's crust. It is composed of solid, but flowing rock material. The upper mantle plays a crucial role in plate tectonics and the movement of Earth's lithosphere

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The nape and upper mantle are chestnut.
So there is a solid portion of the upper mantle.
The most abundant upper mantle mineral is olivine.
It is made up of the crust and upper mantle.
The upper mantle causes the tectonic plates to move.
These spots on the upper mantle are white.
Today differentiation still continues in the upper mantle.
It is further divided into upper mantle and lower mantle.
Upper mantle convection.
The deposits are in the upper mantle.
This is the upper mantle and this over here is the lower mantle.
It also has opaque white patches on its upper mantle.
Enriched lower crust and upper mantle might also contribute.
They originated from the partial melting of the upper mantle.
We focussed on the influence of the upper mantle viscosity on slab folding.

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These allow for the imaging of the crust and upper mantle.
The crust in conjunction with the upper mantle comprises the lithosphere.
This extensional phase was probably a result of slab detachment in the upper mantle.
The crust and the upper mantle make up what is called the lithosphere.
The lower mantle is more solid than the upper mantle.
These zones have low upper mantle temperatures and long transform faults develop.
No evidence is found for iron enrichment of the upper mantle in this region.
Below the lithosphere the upper mantle becomes notably more plastic in its rheology.
The results of lithospheric study showed a heterogeneous crust and homogeneous upper mantle.
So this is the upper mantle.
It probably represents a continental margin sequence overridden by oceanic crust and upper mantle.
The upper mantle of Earth is composed mainly of olivine and pyroxene.
This reaction marks the boundary between upper mantle and lower mantle.
Upper mantle velocity and ratio values beneath the Slave craton indicate an ultramafic peridotitic composition.
And the mantle itself can be subdivided into the upper mantle and the lower mantle.
The upper mantle has different regions, too.
Majorite is a type of garnet mineral found in the upper mantle of the Earth.
Thus, the upper mantle can only flow very slowly.
Division II assemblages represent atypical oceanic crust and upper mantle assemblages.
The upper mantle - there is different ways to define the boundary.
We start with the Upper Mantle.
The head is black, upper mantle and underside are black glossed with purple.
It has been discovered only in a few rocks, from upper mantle rock to meteorites.
The crown and upper mantle are black, streaked with pale blue and white.
And then everything below here, we are actually talking about the upper mantle.
So, you see how the magma from the upper mantle pushes up into the chamber.
It includes the crust and the topmost, solid layer of the upper mantle.
Shotpoints offset from the line ends recorded upper mantle observations to a distance of 240 km.
This process created the planet 's iron core and silicate upper mantle.
Needless to remind, the upper mantle is much cooler than the lower ( deeper ) section.
Olivine, wadsleyite, and ringwoodite are polymorphs found in the upper mantle of the earth.
The processes in the Earth 's Upper Mantle in relation to the Earth 's crust structure ".
Diatreme formation is sometimes associated with kimberlite magma, which originates in the upper mantle.
At the same time, the coolest rocks in the upper mantle sink toward the core.
Nevertheless, diffusional creep can dominate in very cold or deep parts of the upper mantle.

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