A unified continental thickness from seismology and diamonds suggests a melt-defined plate

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.AAN0741MaRDI QIDQ4645976zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Saikiran Tharimena, Catherine Rychert, Nicholas J. Harmon

Publication date 11 January 2019

Published in Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/413029/1/Tharimena_et_al_2017_Science_accepted_.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geological problems (86A60) Seismology (including tsunami modeling), earthquakes (86A15)

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