Foundering of lower island-arc crust explains continental Moho

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(Phys.org) —Oliver Jagoutz of MIT and Mark Behn of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are suggesting in a paper they've had published in the journal Nature, that foundering of lower island-arc crust can explain characteristics of the origin of continental Moho.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-foundering-island-arc-crust-continental-moho.html#jCp

Edited December 11, 2013 by knocker