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Three narratives, like Roshomon they vie,

To frame suboceanic mantle growth.

Sea water infiltration cannot tie

The isotopes and concentrations both.

A diff’rent melt, cryptic in its disguise

Will spin the tale to take the starring role.

From clinopyroxene we can surmise

The melting source, not multiple, is sole.

Assimilation, favored by the Borg

Sees itself eating altered seafloor crust

This theory dies, is buried in the morgue

These melts are far too primitive, robust.

     Unlike the movie data can constain

     Remelted sulfides crystallized again.

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