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Scraped by flat-slab subduction

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NATURE GEOSCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 890-891

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0270-x

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During flat subduction, material is scraped off the base of the continental mantle lithosphere, building a migrating keel. This testable mechanism for flat subduction recreates features of the Laramide orogeny.

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