The rock is peridotite, which is one of the main rocks in the upper mantle, an area that provides a girth below the Earth's crust.

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Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth's superheated mantle.

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