Mantle Rocks (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Mantle Rocks

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The researchers say the rocks recovered from the mantle bear a closer resemblance to those that were present on early Earth rather than the more common rocks that make up our continents today.

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Professor Johan Lissenberg

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