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Lava lamp tectonics: How giant blobs of subducted sediment float up through deep Earth – Phys.org

A University of Wyoming professor has used computer modeling to propose that sand and mud subducted off the coast of California…

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A University of Wyoming professor has used computer modeling to propose that sand and mud subducted off the coast of California around 75 million years ago returned to the Earth’s crust by rising up through the mantle as enormous diapirs, like blobs in…

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