The Earth's Interior (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

The Earth's Interior

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This artistic view of the Earth's interior shows hydrocarbons forming in the upper mantle and transported through deep faults to shallower depths in the Earth's crust. The inset shows a snapshot of the methane dissociation reaction studied in this work.

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Image courtesy A. Kolesnikov and V. Kutcherov

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