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    The mantle (also known by the Latin word pallium meaning mantle, robe or cloak, adjective pallial) is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it...
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    spermatophore inside the mantle cavity of a female. A ventral part of the foot has been converted into a funnel through which water exits the mantle cavity. The...
    67 KB (6,860 words) - 16:33, 5 January 2025
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    Divine Liturgy. Unlike the Western cope, the mantle is worn only by monastics. The klobuk is worn over the mantle. Christian knights, many of whom take monastic...
    14 KB (1,742 words) - 22:49, 29 October 2024
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    convection cells in the mantle. Convection cells are the result of heat generated by the radioactive decay of elements in the mantle escaping to the surface...
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    chemical subdivision of these same layers into the mantle (comprising both the asthenosphere and the mantle portion of the lithosphere) and the crust: a...
    114 KB (14,203 words) - 05:17, 7 January 2025
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    : 488  Water enters the mantle cavity on the outside of the gills, and the entrance of the mantle cavity closes. When the mantle contracts, water is forced...
    139 KB (15,558 words) - 10:20, 4 January 2025
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    original text related to this article: Child's Ballads/29 "The Boy and the Mantle" (Roud 3961, Child 29) is an Arthurian folk ballad. Unlike the ballads...
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    the lithospheric mantle (or mantle lithosphere), the uppermost part of the mantle that is not convecting. The lithosphere is underlain by the asthenosphere...
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    of caramel. Partial melting of the mantle at mid-ocean ridges produces oceanic crust, and partial melting of the mantle at subduction zones produces continental...
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    second plate, the heavier plate dives beneath the other and sinks into the mantle. A region where this process occurs is known as a subduction zone, and...
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    Volatiles such as water drastically lower the melting point of the mantle, causing some of the mantle to melt and form magma at depth under the overriding plate...
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    ultramafic cumulates. The crust overlies the rigid uppermost layer of the mantle. The crust and the rigid upper mantle layer together constitute oceanic...
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    have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water is drawn into the mantle cavity and over the gill and which serves...
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    ’addereṯ). A variation on the mantle is the mantelet (also spelled mantelot and mantlet), typically describing a short version of the mantle. The term appears...
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    reproduction. The siphon is part of the mantle of the mollusc, and the water flow is directed to (or from) the mantle cavity. A single siphon occurs in...
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    division of Earth's layers that includes the crust and the upper part of the mantle. The lithosphere is broken into tectonic plates whose motion allows heat...
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    wave-like patterns. Mantle: The mantle is the organ that produces shells for most species of mollusca. In snails, the mantle secretes the shell along the...
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    mafic and ultramafic rocks occurring in lava and peridotite xenoliths of the mantle. The gem occurs in silica-deficient rocks such as volcanic basalt and...
    17 KB (1,669 words) - 23:55, 31 October 2024
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    rendering, the mantle is usually crimson and lined with ermine. Certain coats of arms may also display a pavilion (similar to a baldachin) surmounting the mantle...
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    Al-Burda (redirect from Poem of the Mantle)
    Qasīdat al-Burda (Arabic: قصيدة البردة, "Ode of the Mantle"), or al-Burda for short, is a thirteenth-century ode of praise for Muhammad composed by the...
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