| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| The region of the interior of the Earth between the core (on its inner surface) and the crust (on its outer). | 1 |
| ‡ The mantle is more than two thousand miles thick and accounts for more than three-quarters of the volume of the Earth. | 2 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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