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Earthâs Deep Water Cycle Suzan van der Lee Northwestern University Feng et al. (2007); Van der Lee and Wiens (EDWC) mantle wedge seismically slow and wet, dry below? Mantle…

PowerPoint Presentation Topics for lessons are on each table. Please sit at a table with a topic for which you could see yourself designing a lesson. Atmospheric circulation…

Fig. 1 Regional tectonic setting with plate boundaries (MORs/transforms = black, subduction zones = teethed red) from Bird (2003) and ophiolite belts representing sutures…

The Seafloor and Continental Margins Learning Goals  •Introduce main features of the seafloor  •Learn how we study the surface and subsurface of the seafloor …

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