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OCR: Data on the Earth' Interior Density (g/cma) Thickness (km) Top Bottom Types of rock found Crus Silicic rocks Andesite basalt base Upper mantle 720 Peridotite eclogite olivine toine garnet pyroxene Perovskite oxides Lower mantle 317 Magnesium and silicon axides Outer core 2259 Iron oxygen, sulfur alloy Inner core 1221 Iron oxygen sulfur nickel alloy Total thickness 637 Thie table depths tnnsitias and composition cerived mosti from information n textbool Don Anderson s00 Suggested Reading) Scientists are continuing to refine the chemical and mineral composition the Earth' interior laboratory experiments, using pressures million times the pressure of the atmosphere the surtace and temperatures high 2,000 Crust spinel Porovskite mantie 2171 tron 6371 This tahle mostly taxthool Jaboratory

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