A subduction influence on ocean ridge basalts outside the Pacific subduction shield
We discover a pervasive subduction influence in the Arctic, Atlantic and Indian mantle, which is nearly absent in the Pacific mantle. Such a hemispheric-scale upper mantle heterogeneity reflects the control of a “subduction shield” that has surrounded the Pacific Ocean for 180 Myr.
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-08-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25027-2 |