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The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Mystery of the Earth's Inner Structure

How did we find that out? It's an incredible story of so many different techniques coming together, he says. The mantle contains some materials which are only kind of stable at those pressure and temperature ranges. And it's quite a unique set of circumstances that get them to the Earth's surface that we can then sample them.

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