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SUBMITTER: Wan B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7406333 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wan Bo B Yang Xusong X Tian Xiaobo X Yuan Huaiyu H Kirscher Uwe U Mitchell Ross N RN
Science advances 20200805 32
The earliest evidence for subduction, which could have been localized, does not signify when plate tectonics became a global phenomenon. To test the antiquity of global subduction, we investigated Paleoproterozoic time, for which seismic evidence is available from multiple continents. We used a new high-density seismic array in North China to image the crustal structure that exhibits a dipping Moho bearing close resemblance to that of the modern Himalaya. The relict collisional zone is Paleoprot ...[more]