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Nature 429, 356-357 (27 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/429356a
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- Chicago, Illinois, United States
Paleobiologist / Biogeochemist
- University of Cincinnati
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Earth science: Just add more water
Rob Evans1
Abstract
Data from a different technique for probing events within the Earth, interpreted in terms of a new hypothesis about the effects of water at depth, raise tantalizing questions about recycling of a tectonic plate.
In places such as the Pacific Rim, the sea floor collides with and is pushed below the land masses that border the ocean. This process of subduction, and its consequences in the form of earthquakes and volcanism, are the result of plate tectonics, in which the formation of sea floor at mid-ocean ridges is accommodated by the recycling of tectonic plates in the Earth's interior.
- Rob Evans is at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
e-mail: Email: revans@whoi.edu
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