Fluid/sediment Melt Model & Mélange Model (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Fluid/sediment Melt Model & Mélange Model

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It was long-thought that fluids from a subducted tectonic plate and melted sediments percolated into the mantle where they mixed, triggering more melting, and eventually erupt at the surface (left). Mixing and melting are reversed in the mélange model (right).

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Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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