Sentence examples for mantle about from inspiring English sources

Studies with earthquake recordings have given a picture inside the Earth of a solid but layered and flow-patterned mantle about 2,900 km (1,800 miles) thick, which in places lies within 10 km (6 miles) of the surface under the oceans.

If not enough water is present in the mantle about 100 to 200 km deep to keep things flowing, continental production decreases.

A sample from the new pipe in Liberia, he says, could offer insight into conditions in the mantle about 150 million years ago, when a rift opened up between Africa and South America and created the Atlantic Ocean.

Nakajima et al. (2011) examined the seismic wave velocity structure of the source area of the 2011 M 7.1 Miyagi Oki earthquake that took place at a depth of c. 65 km in the slab mantle about 1 month after the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku Oki earthquake.

The relation between ∆AAM and ∆LOD is as follows (Chao and Yan 2010) varDelta LOD=frac{86400}{C_mvarOmega}times varDelta mathrm{A}mathrm{A}mathrm{M} (1 where Ω is the Earth mean rotation rate and C m is the principal moment of inertia of the Earth's mantle of about 7.1 × 1037 kgm2.

The lower mantle is about eighteen hundred miles from Earth's surface — roughly the distance from Manhattan to Denver — but is less accessible and less known to us than the face of Mars.

Flood basalts in coastal and offshore eastern Greenland are related to the separation of Greenland and northwestern Europe under the influence of the Iceland mantle plume about 68 million years ago.

The lower mantle is about eighteen hundred miles from Earth's surface roughly the distance from Manhattan to Denver but is less accessible and less known to us than the face of Mars.

In their experiment, the researchers found that an average sample of copper from the mantle weighed about 0.025% more than samples taken from the meteorites.

If subducted slabs were stagnant in the transition zone, paleosubducted and stagnant slabs would have begun to avalanche and descend into the lower mantle in about 10 million years (Pysklywec and Ishii 2005) and would have finally reached the CMB.

But there is no sense that Serena's heroic mantle is about to slip, although you can bet it's not an easy job to maintain those standards.