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Science 19 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5810, pp. 338 - 339
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137738
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Perspectives

GEOCHEMISTRY:
Fuel for Plate Tectonics

Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova

Water storage in Earth's mantle causes seismic waves to slow down when passing through Earth's interior.

The author is at Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans, Universit é Blaise Pascal, 63038 Clermont-Ferrand, France. E-mail: n.bolfan{at}opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr

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