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Downgoing slabs of lithosphere may exert a pull on the portions of plate left at the surface.
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ISACKS, B., MOLNAR, P. Mantle Earthquake Mechanisms and the Sinking of the Lithosphere. Nature 223, 1121–1124 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231121a0
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