Boudinage in Norway shows similar features to subducting plates (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Boudinage in Norway shows similar features to subducting plates

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Researchers including The University of Texas at Austin have published a study in Nature that says subducting tectonic plates become segmented like a slinky snake, in a process similar to geologic boudinage (pictured) but on a much larger scale.

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Haakon Fossen, Structural Geology/Cambridge University Press

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