Sinking slabs of oceanic lithosphere often stagnate in Earth's mantle. Experiments show that common slab minerals transform to their high-pressure, high-density counterparts at very slow rates, thus keeping the slabs buoyant and impeding subduction.
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Bina, C. Garnet goes hungry. Nature Geosci 6, 335–336 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1804
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