SEDIS - Thesaurus
mantle  | |
|---|---|
| NT | upper mantle |
| RT | 410-km discontinuity |
| 670-km discontinuity | |
| asthenosphere | |
| continental drift | |
| convection | |
| convection currents | |
| core | |
| core-mantle boundary | |
| creep | |
| crust | |
| degassing | |
| delamination | |
| discontinuities | |
| Earth | |
| earthquakes | |
| elastic waves | |
| geosynclines | |
| geothermal gradient | |
| heat flo | |
| SN | Used for the zone of Earth below the crust and above the core (to a depth of 3480 km). |
| mantle plumes | |
|---|---|
| NT | superplumes |
| RT | diapirs |
| hot spots | |
| Icelandic Plume | |
| intraplate processes | |
| plate tectonics | |
| plumes | |
| superswells | |
| swells | |
| upwelling | |
| Yellowstone Hot Spot | |
| SN | Added to Thesaurus in 1995. |
| mantle-core boundary |
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