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Crustal recycling evolution

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The processes that form and recycle continental crust have changed through time. Numerical models reveal an evolution from extensive recycling on early Earth as the lower crust peeled away, to limited recycling via slab break-off today.

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Figure 1: The evolving style of plate tectonics and continental crustal recycling in collision zones.

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Magni, V. Crustal recycling evolution. Nature Geosci 10, 623–624 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3015

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