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Geochemist @DurUniEarthSci @durham_uni. Head full of rock 🌋&🎸 (he/him/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿)
Jun 24, 2020 12 tweets 18 min read
Attention subducters! 12 part THREAD on our new @VoiLA_NERC paper in @Nature, led by @Cooper_geo. TL;DR? Not all #subduction zones recycle water the same way & #LesserAntilles recycling changes in time and space [1/12]
rdcu.be/b49wQ So how did the @VoiLA_NERC team, funded by @NERCScience, use boron isotopes to show that water subducted by the #Atlantic Plate is directly linked to volcanic and earthquake activity in the #Antilles? [2/12] Title and abstract of Cooper et al (2020) paper in Nature