ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] It is suggested that the upper mantle contains elongated strips of subducted oceanic lithosphere. These strips are stretched and thinned by the normal and shear strains in the convecting mantle, and are destroyed by being reprocessed at ocean ridges or, on the centimetre scale, by dissolution ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/323123a0
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