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A giant subducting sausage

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Earthquake data seem to reveal a huge sausage-shaped slab of material detaching itself from the material subducting as two plates meet beneath the Hindu Kush. This largest-ever 'boudin' could tell us more about what happens when continents collide.

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Figure 1: Cross-sections through continental and oceanic subduction zones.

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  1. Linda M. Warren is in the Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. lmwarren@email.arizona.edu,

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Warren, L. A giant subducting sausage. Nature Geosci 1, 154–155 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo142

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