The slippery base of a tectonic plate

Catherine A. Rychert ()
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Catherine A. Rychert: Catherine A. Rychert is at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK.

Nature, 2015, vol. 518, issue 7537, 39-40

Abstract: High-resolution imaging of the base of the Pacific plate as it descends beneath New Zealand discloses a 10-kilometre-thick channel that decouples the plate from underlying upper mantle. See Letter p.85

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/518039a

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