Test of the lower mantle slab penetration hypothesis using broadband S waves
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Evidence of lower-mantle slab penetration phases in plate motions.
It is well accepted that subduction of the cold lithosphere is a crucial component of the Earth's plate tectonic style of mantle convection. But whether and how subducting plates penetrate into the lower mantle is the subject of continuing debate, which has substantial implications for the chemical and thermal evolution of the mantle. Here we identify lower-mantle slab penetration events by com...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/gl013i010p01007