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serpentine
(redirected from serpentinized)

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The notion that rifted continental margins consist of thinned, extended continental crust abutting normal oceanic crust was dispelled years ago, nowhere more emphatically than in studies of the Iberian margin, where serpentinized peridotite was discovered intervening between extended continental crust and oceanic crust.
Serpentinized peridotite seamounts on the inner-trench slope indicate the presence of mantle, and therefore a thin crust, in the outer forearc above the subducting plate.
Here it changes these crustal rocks, forming serpentinized rock that is lighter than the surrounding material.
 
 
 
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