A Hidden Rock Layer Beneath Bermuda Explains a Mysterious Swell in the Ocean's Crust Learn about the swelled-up structure beneath Bermuda, where a thick layer of buoyant rock may be holding up oceanic crust.

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A long section of serpentinized depleted mantle peridotite The upper mantle is critical for our understanding of terrestrial magmatism, crust formation, and element cycling between Earth’s solid interior, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. Mantle composi...

The mantle of the Earth is hard to sample, with most of our direct information about it coming from rocks dredged off the ocean floor or from ancient mantle thrust up onto the crust in the form of ophiolites.
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