Assertion: mantle | /r/HasProperty | heterogeneous
Facets:
value: mineralogically
type: MANNER
value: in composition
type: OTHER
value: highly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Some lunar basalts contain high abundances of titanium (present in the mineral ilmenite), suggesting that the mantle is highly heterogeneous in composition.
text: This useful view is by necessity simplified as it assumes a uniform chemical composition for the mantle, but meteorites tell us that the mantle is heterogeneous.
text: The important point is that the range in inferred mantle compositions of different parts of the Martian mantle shows that the mantle is chemically and mineralogically heterogeneous.