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How did the Earth form?
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What’s on the inside, and how do we know?
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© Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license.For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. Source: Carlson, Richard W., ed. The Mantle and Core: Treatise on Geochemistry. Vol. 2. Elsevier, 2005.
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