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Since the discovery of sea-floor spreading it was clear that the mantle regime was a gigantic cycle from ridge crest, to subduction zone to the convective regime of the mantle.
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Allegre, C.J. (1989). Mantle Cycling: Process and Time Scales. In: Hart, S.R., Gülen, L. (eds) Crust/Mantle Recycling at Convergence Zones. NATO ASI Series, vol 258. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0895-6_1
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