Geology and Minerals
Crustal recycling
Crustal recycling is a tectonic process by which surface material from the lithosphere is recycled into the mantle by subduction erosion or delamination. The subducting slabs carry volatile compounds and water into the mantle, as well as crustal material with an isotopic signature different from that of primitive mantle. Identification of this crustal signature in mantle-derived rocks (such as mid-ocean ridge basalts or kimberlites) is proof of crustal recycling.
Also on this shelf
Harmonic tremor.
Karl von Seebach.
See also
- ▸Geology of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ▸George Caleb Bingham
- ▸Extraterrestrial liquid water
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