Vicky VeritasLithospheric drips (a relatively cold and dense mass of lithosphere that sinks vertically into the upper mantle) have been identified using geophysical methods in the Great Basin and now in northern Borneo. The Borneo study published in Nature was accompanied by this startling artist’s depiction of a lithospheric drip.
More on Borneo here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01201-7#data-availability
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Post-subduction tectonics induced by extension from a lithospheric drip - Nature Geoscience
Post-subduction downwelling of lithosphere—or drips—can lead to extension and crustal thinning, influencing the tectonic evolution of continental crust after subduction termination, according to thermo-mechanical simulations.