Global Melt in the Asthenosphere (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Global Melt in the Asthenosphere

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A diagram of the asthenosphere, which aids plate tectonics, where researchers at the UT Austin Jackson School of Geosciences say they detected a global layer of partial melt (shown in speckled red).

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Junlin Hua/UT Jackson School of Geosciences

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