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Composition of the Crust and the Mantle

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The external layers of the solid Earth, from the crust to the lower mantle, are the main actors involved in the plate tectonics drama. In this chapter, I describe their chemical composition and introduce the principal geodynamic processes occurring within and between these layers.

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Schettino, A. (2015). Composition of the Crust and the Mantle. In: Quantitative Plate Tectonics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09135-8_1

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