Modern-style plate subduction preserved in the Palaeoproterozoic West African craton

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Evidence from ophiolites, blueschists, and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes that the modern episode of subduction tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time: Comment and Reply: REPLY

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