Till now, we have understood a few truth regarding mantle. One of the is that Mantle is a solid body. However, in a large time scale it convects, thus behaves like a fluid. But, in any case it is not a liquid like molten iron or water (last article) . Now, interesting thing is that we see volcanism, where, molten materials are coming from the deep earth. Practically it is has been proved that those materials are coming from different depth levels of mantle. Certain question arrives if mantle is solid, from where the melt is coming from. Straightforward answer to this question is that under certain situation solid mantle also melts. Let us discuss how and when mantle produces melt.
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