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Shelles

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In the D layer, the portion of the mantle closest to the core-mantle Boundary is hypothesized to be partially melted because the S-wave velocities decrease by 30 when passing through it.
 
  Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Oceanic crust is compositionally more similar to the mantle than to continental crust.
 
  Indicate whether this statement is true or false.


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makaylafy

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Reply #1 on: Jul 16, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: TRUE

Answer to Question 2

Answer: TRUE


Shelles

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Reply 2 on: Jul 16, 2018
Excellent

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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