Mineralogy: Garnet goes hungry

Craig R Bina

doi:10.1038/ngeo1804

Mineralogy: Garnet goes hungry

Craig R Bina^*

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Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Abstract

Sinking slabs of oceanic lithosphere often stagnate in Earth's mantle. Experiments show that common slab minerals transform to their high-pressure, high-density counterparts at very slow rates, thus keeping the slabs buoyant and impeding subduction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	335-336
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Geoscience
Volume	6
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1804
State	Published - Jan 1 2013

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