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Mantle rock behaves like an extremely highly viscous plastic
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Forget your grade-school diagrams showing a hollow Earth filled with sloshing liquid fire. The mantle is overwhelmingly composed of solid rock. However, under immense subterranean heat and pressure, this solid rock deforms and slowly creeps over millions of years like an unbelievably thick, incredibly stubborn plastic putty.
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