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Compositional mantle layering revealed by slab stagnation at ~1000-km depth

Published:2015-12-04 Issue:11 Volume:1 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Ballmer Maxim D.¹²,Schmerr Nicholas C.³^ORCID,Nakagawa Takashi⁴^ORCID,Ritsema Jeroen⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.

2. School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.

3. Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

4. Department of Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan.

5. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Abstract

The stagnation of ~1000-km deep slabs indicates that dense basalt may be more abundant in the lower mantle than in the upper mantle.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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