What is "upper mantle"

Usage examples of "upper mantle".

A moment later, Ulgrim, who stood nearby, cursed and clapped a claw to his upper mantle.

She was almost as tall as the black and white demons, although much less massive, especially in her upper mantle.

They are deflected by transition zones between different kinds of material, such as that between core and mantle, or lower and upper mantle.

Many of the investors had already become extremely rich from the potential of the rich ore lodes discovered in the lower crust and upper mantle.

The floor of the South Atlantic is perfectly normal, which means that any continent that once existed there would somehow have had to transform itself from twenty-five-mile-thick continental crust into five miles of oceanic crust plus twenty miles of upper mantle (the deeper layer that lies beneath the crust all over the earth), or else have disappeared without trace.

It looked like a jellyfish with tentacles around its upper mantle to grasp with.

In time the crust and upper mantle would shear off the planet&rsquo.

Diamonds are thought to have been formed as long ago as three billion years, anywhere from 120 to 200 kilometers deep in the earth's upper mantle.

In time the crust and upper mantle would shear off the planet’.

From this she selected a Roman robe, upper mantle, and sandals--the most common in colour and texture that she could find--and folding them up into the smallest compass, hid them under her own garments.

Most of them collected in the past two decades, as exhaustive mapping of the Earth's crust and upper mantle at the micrometer level has become practical.

It's one of the most important places for understanding the composition of the earth's upper mantle and the theory of continental drift and ocean floor spreading.

Most theories postulated that diamonds, crystals of pure carbon, were formed in the intense heat and pressure of the upper mantle one thousand miles beneath the earth’.

And it turns out, quite clearly--I will show you all the necessary data at any time you wish--that uranium and thorium collect in Earths crust and upper mantle in concentrations of up to a thousand times as high as in any other habitable world.