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Building cratonic keels in Precambrian plate tectonics.

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Published in 2020 at "Nature"

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2806-7

Abstract: The ancient cores of continents (cratons) are underlain by mantle keels-volumes of melt-depleted, mechanically resistant, buoyant and diamondiferous mantle up to 350 kilometres thick, which have remained isolated from the hotter and denser convecting mantle… read more here.

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