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Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They Knocked on the Mantle’s DoorIn May of 2023, scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite that forms when saltwater interacts with mantle rock. Although this is the deepest into the mantle ...
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Geologists Found Remnants Of Earth's Mantle That Have Lasted Over 2.5 Billion Years And Challenge Previous Beliefs About Our Planet's Oxidation ProcessesOne of the most common types is an igneous rock high in silica content called peridotite. In the past, when geologists compared prehistoric peridotite from Earth's mantle with modern samples ...
The Atlantis Massif is an oceanic core complex, a portion of lower crustal gabbroic rocks and peridotite mantle rocks uplifted during faulting of the seafloor (e.g. Ildefonse et al., 2007) that formed ...
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