Sentences with phrase «oceanic plate buckles»
The CO2 pools form when one oceanic plate buckles under another and carbonates in the sediment break down under the intense heat.
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«There are examples of lithospheric buckling on Earth involving both oceanic and continental plates, but this may be the first evidence of lithospheric buckling on Mercury,» said Thomas R. Watters, senior scientist at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and lead author of the new study.