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Beneath California's Sierra Nevada, evidence suggests the lithosphere is undergoing foundering, where the denser lower lithosphere detaches and sinks into the mantle.

Delamination or convective thinning could cause large-scale and complete removal of the mantle lithosphere under orogens. However, geological and geophysical observations suggest that patched removal ...