Sentences with phrase «lithospheric weak zones»
Lithospheric weak zones with tiny grains have long been suspected to be important to facilitating plate tectonics — but this study explains for the first time how they form, and how «the lithosphere can «remember» these zones of weakness for a geologically long time,» says geophysicist Paul Tackley of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
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To better understand the development of these weak zones and how they lead to plate boundaries, Bercovici and geophysicist Yanick Ricard of the University of Lyon in France investigated what kind of damage happens to lithospheric rocks under intense deformation.