The slab's pull has created giant "drips" that hang from the underside of the continent down ... The researchers found that ...

The microcontinent then extends during its journey to the subduction trench owing to the tensional force applied by the pull of the rock slab pull across the subduction zone (Figure b).

The slab's pull has created giant "drips" that hang from ... found that the drips result from the downward dragging force of a chunk of oceanic crust that broke off from an ancient tectonic ...