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Oceanic crust recycling controlled by weakening at slab edges
Retreating subduction zones such as the Lesser Antilles, Gibraltar and Scotia have been migrating towards the Atlantic Ocean by cutting their way through the oceanic crust. This spontaneously retreating subduction is enabled by the development of faults at the edges of the slab, but the physical mec...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32332715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15750-7 |