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Plate tectonics is the surface expression of mantle convection. Seismic observations at the Cascadia subduction zone show that coupling between tectonic plate motion and mantle flow may depend on the size of the plate.

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Figure 1: The Cascadia subduction zone.

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  1. Claire A. Currie is in the Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada,

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Currie, C. Go with the flow. Nature Geosci 8, 901–902 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2594

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