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Nature Geoscience 1, 154 - 155 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo142
Subject Category: Seismology
Seismology: A giant subducting sausage
Linda M. Warren1
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Linda M. Warren is in the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
e-mail: lmwarren@email.arizona.edu
Abstract
Earthquake data seem to reveal a huge sausage-shaped slab of material detaching itself from the material subducting as two plates meet beneath the Hindu Kush. This largest-ever 'boudin' could tell us more about what happens when continents collide.
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