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SUBMITTER: Shi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6113232 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180828 1
Southern Tibet is the most active orogenic region on Earth where the Indian Plate thrusts under Eurasia, pushing the seismic discontinuity between the crust and the mantle to an unusual depth of ~80 km. Numerous earthquakes occur in the lower portion of this thickened continental crust, but the triggering mechanisms remain enigmatic. Here we show that dry granulite rocks, the dominant constituent of the subducted Indian crust, become brittle when deformed under conditions corresponding to the ec ...[more]