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Part of the Earth composed mainly of solid [[silicate]] rock that entends from the base of the [[crust]] to the core-mantle boundary at approximately 2900 km (-1802 mi) in depth.<ref name=Petersetal_2012>Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, 2012, [http://archives.datapages.com/data/specpubs/hedberg4/INTRODUCTION/INTRODUCTION.HTM An overview of basin and petroleum system modeling: Definitions and concepts], ''in'' Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, eds., Basin modeling: New horizons in research and applications: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=1106 AAPG Hedberg Series no. 4], p. 1-16.</ref>
  
 
==Useful links==
 
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* [http://geology.about.com/od/mantle/qt/Mantle-Structure.htm Layers of the mantle]
 
* [http://geology.about.com/od/mantle/qt/Mantle-Structure.htm Layers of the mantle]
 
* [http://www.virtualuppermantle.info/Default.htm Virtual upper mantle]
 
* [http://www.virtualuppermantle.info/Default.htm Virtual upper mantle]
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Part of the Earth composed mainly of solid silicate rock that entends from the base of the crust to the core-mantle boundary at approximately 2900 km (-1802 mi) in depth.[1]

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  1. Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, 2012, An overview of basin and petroleum system modeling: Definitions and concepts, in Peters, Kenneth E., David J. Curry, and Marek Kacewicz, eds., Basin modeling: New horizons in research and applications: AAPG Hedberg Series no. 4, p. 1-16.