The transport of water from subducting crust into the mantle is mainly dictated by the stability
of hydrous minerals in subduction zones. The thermal structure of subduction zones is a key …

The concentration and distribution of water in the Earth has influenced its evolution
throughout its history. Even at the trace levels contained in the planet's deep interior (mantle …

Subducted crust refertilizes the subarc mantle wedge as well as the deep convecting mantle.
In the subarc region, mass transfer occurs mainly through fluids, melts, or supercritical …

Partial melting at continental lithosphere depths plays an important role in generating
geochemical variations in igneous rocks. In particular, dehydration melting of ultrahigh …

The Earth has distinctive convective behaviour, described by the plate tectonics model, in
which lateral motion of the oceanic lithosphere of basaltic crust and peridotitic uppermost …

Minerals included in diamonds provide direct information about the petrologic and chemical
environment of diamond crystallization. They record information relating to local and …

Redox melting refers to any process by which melt is generated by the contact of a rock with
a fluid or melt with a contrasting oxidation state. It was originally applied to melting owing to …

Cratons, the ancient cores of continents, contain the oldest crust and mantle on the Earth (>
2 Gyr old). They extend laterally for hundreds of kilometres, and are underlain to depths of …

Oxidation of the sub-arc mantle driven by slab-derived fluids has been hypothesized to
contribute to the formation of gold deposits in magmatic arc environments that host the …

The role of water in the uppermost mantle has been explored to 6 GPa (∼ 200 km) by a
novel experimental approach in which the silicate melting solidus, the stability of hydrous …