is mantle cycle made of silicate rocks? why?
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Over millions of years, the mantle cooled. Water trapped inside minerals erupted with lava, a process called “outgassing.” As more water was outgassed, the mantle solidified. The rocks that make up Earth's mantle are mostly silicates—a wide variety of compounds that share a silicon and oxygen structure..
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