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A surprising discovery of a massive, ancient, subducted tectonic slab in the southeastern Indian Ocean, known as the southeast Indian slab (SEIS), encompassing the entire mantle down to the earth's core raises a whole set of new questions, and offers opportunities to answer some previously outstanding ones. Evidence for SEIS comes from a high-resolution tomographic study by Simmons et al.
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