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SUBMITTER: Zhao L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195360 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200501 1
The dynamics of continental subduction is largely controlled by the rheological properties of rocks involved along the subduction channel. Serpentinites have low viscosity at geological strain rates. However, compelling geophysical evidence of a serpentinite channel during continental subduction is still lacking. Here we show that anomalously low shear-wave seismic velocities are found beneath the Western Alps, along the plate interface between the European slab and the overlying Adriatic mantle ...[more]