Crustal recycling by subduction erosion in the central Mexican Volcanic Belt

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2015

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Straub, Susanne M.
Gomez-Tuena, Arturo
Bindeman, Ilya N
Bolge, Louise L.
Brandl, Philipp
Espinasa-Perena, Ramon
Solari, L.A.
Stuart, Finlay M.
Vannucchi, Paola
Zellmer, Georg

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Pergamon Press Ltd.

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Recycling of upper plate crust in subduction zones, or 'subduction erosion', is a major mechanism of crustal destruction at convergent margins. However, assessing the impact of eroded crust on arc magmas is difficult owing to the compositional similarity

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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