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Scraped by flat-slab subduction
Gutscher, M.-A. (2018). Scraped by flat-slab subduction. Nature Geoscience 11(12): 890-891. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0270-x
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908, more
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  • Gutscher, M.-A.
Abstract
    During flat subduction, material is scraped off the base of the continental mantle lithosphere, building a migrating keel. This testable mechanism for flat subduction recreates features of the Laramide orogeny.
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