Sentences with phrase «ancient subducting»
He then estimated the average temperature of a modern versus an ancient subducting slab, relative to the temperature of the surrounding mantle.
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As a result, mantle plumes entrain a variable combination of relatively young oceanic crust directly from the subducting slab, older oceanic crust that has been stirred with ancient more primitive material and background, depleted mantle.