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Analysis reveals that the uranium isotopic composition of oceanic crust that is being subducted into Earth's interior is distinctive, allowing the development of chemical heterogeneity in the mantle to be tracked. See Letter p.356

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Figure 1: Crustal recycling.

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  1. Jon Woodhead is in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.,

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Woodhead, J. Mixing it up in the mantle. Nature 517, 275–276 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/517275a

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