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Double dip

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The Indian Plate moved north unusually quickly during the late Cretaceous. Numerical simulations suggest that this rapid migration was caused by the pull of two coupled, narrowing subduction zones.

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Figure 1: Coupled double subduction zones.

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  1. Magali Billen is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA,

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Billen, M. Double dip. Nature Geosci 8, 428–429 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2431

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