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The biggest-ever sample of core material from Earth's mantle could have valuable clues into the origins of life
I was part of an international team which retrieved a record-breaking 1,268m-long drill core (a long cylindrical sample of rock collected by the drill) of mantle rock from the seabed. This sample ...
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Where They Cried
Among the cliffs and glades of western Kentucky, a mile-long trail cuts across a patch of prairie. A sandstone arch called Mantle Rock looms in a nearby hollow, where thick carpets of moss soften the ...