Sentences with phrase «molten earth material»

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Besides having the right mix of ingredients and pressures, this range defines a well - known transition zone within the mantle, the 2900 - kilometer - or - so - thick layer of slowly circulating material that lies between Earth's crust and its outer core of molten iron.

David Rowley, a geologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and a team of geodynamical modelers simulated the lava lamp - like movement of hot material in Earth's mantle, which is a highly viscous though solid layer of rock between the crust and the molten core.

Previously, scientists proposed that changes in the circulation of molten material in Earth's mantle — the slow - flowing material that lies between our planet's core and its crust — pushed the terrain east of the Andes upward, thereby changing drainage patterns.

volcano A place on Earth's crust that opens, allowing magma and gases to spew out from underground reservoirs of molten material.

The finding backs up theories that Earth's solid lower mantle once housed a magma «ocean,» and that some remnant of that molten material still exists today, like jam between two cake layers.

Hart said these pieces not only feature the central theme of stone, but also stand as almost an obverted version of the planet, Earth, that so inspired Noguchi, with rock at the core in this case and a molten - like material coating the outside.

Is there a need for a greenhouse gas effect when none of the Energy balances issued from 1824 to the present include the «heat of the earth itself» There is a layer of molten material below the surface of the earth (probable keep hot by nuclear materials reactions) that CAN ACCOUNT FOR MUCH OF THE EARTHS CONTINUING TEMPERATURE WHEN ADDED TO THE SOLAR ENERGY INPUT FROM THE SUN.

It is caused by water coming in contact with the molten material under the Earth's crust called magma (it's lava when it emerges).