Evidence for a serpentinized plate interface favouring continental subduction

The dynamics of continental subduction is largely controlled by the rheological properties of rocks involved along the subduction channel. Here, the authors reveal a prominent, yet previously undetected, low-velocity body beneath the Western Alps, along the plate interface between the European slab...

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Main Authors: Liang Zhao, Marco G. Malusà, Huaiyu Yuan, Anne Paul, Stéphane Guillot, Yang Lu, Laurent Stehly, Stefano Solarino, Elena Eva, Gang Lu, Thomas Bodin, CIFALPS Group, AlpArray Working Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15904-7