Strong plates enhance mantle mixing in early Earth

The subducting plates can either penetrate straight into the lower mantle or flatten in the mantle transition zone, yet slab dynamics in the past remains unclear. Here, using subduction models, the authors predict that a hotter early Earth was probably more favourable to lower mantle slab penetratio...

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Main Authors: Roberto Agrusta, Jeroen van Hunen, Saskia Goes
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/c0370e655c014a07b9ddd06138a2e364
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