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An approach integrating different data sets has been used to map out seismic-velocity ratios in the crust of western North America. High inferred quartz content correlates with tectonic deformation zones. See Letter p.353

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Figure 1: Cross-section through zones of active deformation in western North America and the stable continental interior.

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  1. Roland Bürgmann and Pascal Audet are in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, and the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-4767, USA.,

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Bürgmann, R., Audet, P. Continental jelly. Nature 471, 312–313 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471312a

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