Taking the temperature of slabs

Stephen H. Kirby ()
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Stephen H. Kirby: the US Geological Survey, MS 977

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6765, 31-34

Abstract: Subduction zones are places where slabs of ocean crust dive deep into the Earth's mantle — as, for instance, beneath Japan. New studies provide insight into the influence that a slab's thermal structure, cold or warm, may have on the seismic and volcanic activity associated with subduction.

Date: 2000
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