The thickness of the earth's mantle is about 2900 km and it is about a 100km down to it. There is a really cool cutaway drawing available by using the Wikipedia link.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_deep_is_the_mantle_mantle
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Plate Tectonics question: How thick is the lower mantle? 2900 kilometers ... Characterists lower mantle? Inner mantle earth how thick? How deep is the lower mantle? How thick is the lower mantel? How think is the lower mantle? How hot is it in the lower mantle? What is the size of the lower mantle?
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wiki.answers.com/Q/How_thick_is_the_lower_mantle
wiki.answers.com/Q/How_thick_is_the_lower_mantle
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Show me another » ... need help for a science prodject how thick is the mantle, inner core, and outer core? Whats their temps. and what elements make them up? ... 9 months ago...
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answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090301182602AA1Q...
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Below right: A view not drawn to scale to show the Earth's three main layers (crust, mantle, and core) in more detail (see text).; Below the crust is the mantle, a dense, hot layer of semi-solid rock approximately 2,900 km thick.
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pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/inside.html
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Using data from JISNET and other broadband stations, we estimate the thickness of the mantle transition zone beneath East and Southeast Asia and the Philippine Sea using the ScS reverberation method.
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www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2002/2002GL014764.shtml
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Both the increase in Pn velocity from India into Tibet and the evidence for a thick upper mantle lid beneath Tibet are consistent with the model is which Indian lithosphere has underthrust southern Tibet.
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www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1990/89JB03463.shtml
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I read something quite some time ago about New York being situated on a thick mantle of rock over a very large, very deep underground void. Have you heard of this and can you shed any light on it? It would be in the magnitude of tectonic plates.
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en.allexperts.com/q/New-York-112/New-York-Geology.htm
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The mantle is the solid region of the earth between the crust and core. The mantle is 2850 km thick. ... Hot spot volcanoes are generated by plumes originating at the core - mantle boundary. The few dozen hot spot locations represent a different form of volcanism.
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www.volcanolive.com/mantle.html
www.volcanolive.com/mantle.html
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Exploring the Earth's Mantle ... The earth is divided into four main layers: the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. The core is composed mostly of iron (Fe) and is so hot that the ... Here it reveals the detailed structure of a soil layer only 20 m thick, showing channels likely to collect contaminated ground water.
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www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/interior.htm...
www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/interior.html
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