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Science 8 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5830, pp. 1439 - 1440
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141921
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Perspectives

GEOPHYSICS:
Listening to the Crackle of Subducting Oceanic Plates

Andreas Rietbrock

Double zones of seismic activity now appear to be a general feature of tectonic plates pushed deep into Earth, providing new clues to the sources of deep earthquakes.

The author is in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Liverpool University, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK. E-mail: A.Rietbrock@liverpool.ac.uk

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