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Description: Diagram illustrating the following: As the slab is subducted into the mantle, the more dense material will sink break off and sink to the lower mantle creating a discontinuity elsewhere known as a slab avalanche (Rogers and Santosh 2004).
Title: FigureSlabAvalanche
Credit: Rogers, John J.W., and M. Santosh. Continents and Supercontinents. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. Print.
Author: J. Rogers, M. Santosh
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