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Top-down control on water subduction

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The structure of the overriding plate may control bending and water ingress into the subducting plate based on an exceptional 3D velocity model of the Nankai subduction zone.

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Fig. 1: The proposed influence of the overriding plate on bending and hydration of the subducting plate.

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Shillington, D.J. Top-down control on water subduction. Nat. Geosci. 15, 94–95 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00883-1

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