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Missing link in mantle dynamics

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The discovery of crystallographic imperfections known as disclinations in the most profuse mineral in Earth's upper mantle has the potential to solve a problem that has vexed mineral physicists for decades. See Article p.51

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Figure 1: Imaging polycrystalline olivine.

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