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Compositional mantle layering revealed by slab stagnation at ~1000-km depth.

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Published in Sci Adv on December 10, 2015

Authors

Maxim D Ballmer1, Nicholas C Schmerr2, Takashi Nakagawa3, Jeroen Ritsema4

Author Affiliations

1: Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.; School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
2: Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
3: Department of Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama 236-0001, Japan.
4: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

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