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The ups and downs of sediments

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Neither recycled oceanic crust nor sediments alone can explain the composition of ocean-island basalts, but how about a mixture of the two? Recent modelling using the isotopes of hafnium and neodymium appears to support this contention.

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Figure 1: Oceanic crust (black line) collects sediment as it travels from the mid-oceanic ridge (A).

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  1. The Department of Earth Sciences at Boston University, Boston, 02215, Massachusetts, USA

    Terry Plank

  2. The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, 10964, New York, USA

    Terry Plank

  3. The Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, Michigan, USA

    Peter E. van Keken

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