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Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another
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A study in Geology presents evidence that subduction can spread like a contagion.
Researchers say they've discovered evidence that neighboring collisions triggered East Asia's " Ring of Fire " The smoking gun in this case is the "Dupal anomaly" identified by a geochemical fingerprint from the ancient Tethys Ocean and what is now the Indian Ocean .
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