Sentences with phrase «molten rock surrounded»
«We think this is a dome - shaped pocket of partially molten rock surrounded by normal mantle,» Helmberger says.
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«These small regions have been assumed to be a partially molten version of the rock that surrounds them,» says Mingming Li, lead author of the study, which was published August 2, 2017, in the journal Nature Communications.
There is likely to be a core consisting of molten rock and metal, surrounded by a mixture of rock, water, ammonia, and methane.