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Visualizations of the Earth's Upper Mantle

The following are images and videos generated from the Scripps Earth model. These images are colored by Shear Velocity using standard VIBGYOR color scheme. Depths are center of the layer depths. The images and videos were generated from the Mantle data using Maya.

Videos

• African Megaplume
• Pacific Megaplume

Documents

• Earth's Composition
• Earth's layers
• Earth's Mantle

60 Km	140 Km
250 Km	350 Km
465 Km	600 Km
735 Km	885 Km
1035 Km	1210 Km
1410 Km	1610 Km
1810 Km	2010 Km
2210 Km	2410 Km
2610 Km	2800 Km

The following is a simple diagram of the different layers of the earth. The prior images above sample across the entire mantle starting at the Moho discontinuity to the Gutenburg discontinuity.