Mantle Heterogeneity (IMAGE)

Brown University

Mantle Heterogeneity

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The mantle beneath Earth's mid-oceanic ridges contains heterogeneous blobs of material. A new study puts new constraints on the sizes of those blobs.

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Boda Liu

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