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Siletzia’s origin along an oceanic spreading center: What’s Bremerton got to do with it?

Fifty million years ago, Bremerton, Washington, may have looked a lot like Iceland: hot new land atop an oceanic spreading center. That land was part of the Siletzia terrane, a thick wedge of basaltic crust that extends from Oregon to … Continue reading

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