Mantle fragment (IMAGE)

University of Southampton

Mantle fragment

Caption

A piece of the lowermost continental mantle (the crystalline roots of the continents). This represents the material that the research proposes is removed and swept sideways into the oceanic mantle

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Prof Tom Gernon, University of Southampton

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