Can a subducted sedimentary layer survive into the deep mantle? Maybe, if it is strong or thin.
James K. Muller1, Joe Schools2, Kiran Chotalia3, Erik Christopher Weidner4, Jenna Adams5, Magali I Billen6, Louis Noel Moresi7, Meghan Samanth Miller8, Lauren Waszek8,9, Thorsten W Becker10, Carolina R Lithgow-Bertelloni11, Lars P Stixrude11 and Dominique Weis12, (1)Harvard University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (7)University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, (8)Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (9)New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States, (10)University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (11)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (12)University of British Columbia, PCIGR, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada
