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SUBMITTER: Munch J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7181835 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200424 1
Retreating subduction zones such as the Lesser Antilles, Gibraltar and Scotia have been migrating towards the Atlantic Ocean by cutting their way through the oceanic crust. This spontaneously retreating subduction is enabled by the development of faults at the edges of the slab, but the physical mechanisms controlling fault propagation and direction remain unknown. Here, using 3D numerical subduction models we show that oceanic lithosphere recycling is mainly controlled by the intensity of strai ...[more]