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The other components contain "materials" such as basaltic ocean floor (HIMU), pelagic sediments (EM1), oceanic plateaus (EM1), subcontinental lithosphere (EM1, EM2), terrigenous sediments or subducted continental crust (EM2), which have been recycled by subduction processes, and mixed back into the depleted mantle.
Every grain comes to the surface, and every grain slides down the surface and then gets subducted again," says Troy Shinbrot of Rutgers University.
252 VANDERHILST R, NATURE,vol 0374,page 0154,1995,cites= 19,COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY OF SUBDUCTED LITHOSPHERE IN THE MANTLE BENEATH THE TONGA TRENCH
 
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