Ancient Earthquake Broke Garnets Deep in the Earth's Crust (2 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Ancient Earthquake Broke Garnets Deep in the Earth's Crust (2 of 6)

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GIF shows 3-D visualization of the structure. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 22 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Austrheim at University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway, and colleagues was titled, "Fragmentation of wall rock garnets during deep crustal earthquakes."

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[Credit: Made by Oliver Plümper]

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