Sentences with phrase «subducted lithosphere»
Because such shifts in olivine change the structure of earth's subducted lithosphere, the new phase transition mechanism could help explain the origins of some deep earthquakes.
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While this would have steadily sunk into the mantle, it would not have caused the soft lithosphere to subduct and tear and therefore would not have produced plate margins.
It marks the plate boundary between the subducting Nazca plate and the South America plate, where the oceanic crust and lithosphere of the Nazca plate begin their descent into the mantle beneath South America.
Some geologists think that subducted slabs of lithosphere have settled there.