The transport of water in subduction zones

YF Zheng, RX Chen, Z Xu, SB Zhang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2016‏ - Springer
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 …

Hydration and dehydration in Earth's interior

E Ohtani - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Hydrogen and deuterium isotopic evidence indicates that the source of terrestrial water was
mostly meteorites, with additional influx from nebula gas during accretion. There are two …

Ice-VII inclusions in diamonds: Evidence for aqueous fluid in Earth's deep mantle

O Tschauner, S Huang, E Greenberg, VB Prakapenka… - Science, 2018‏ - science.org
Water-rich regions in Earth's deeper mantle are suspected to play a key role in the global
water budget and the mobility of heat-generating elements. We show that ice-VII occurs as …

Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle

B Schmandt, SD Jacobsen, TW Becker, Z Liu… - Science, 2014‏ - science.org
The high water storage capacity of minerals in Earth's mantle transition zone (410-to 660-
kilometer depth) implies the possibility of a deep H2O reservoir, which could cause …

Continental flood basalts derived from the hydrous mantle transition zone

XC Wang, SA Wilde, QL Li, YN Yang - Nature Communications, 2015‏ - nature.com
It has previously been postulated that the Earth's hydrous mantle transition zone may play a
key role in intraplate magmatism, but no confirmatory evidence has been reported. Here we …

Water distribution across the mantle transition zone and its implications for global material circulation

S Karato - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Various methods for inferring the water distribution in Earth's mantle are reviewed including
geochemical and geophysical methods. The geochemical approach using the water …

Origin of arc-like continental basalts: Implications for deep-Earth fluid cycling and tectonic discrimination

XC Wang, SA Wilde, B Xu, CJ Pang - Lithos, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Continental basalts generally display enrichment of fluid-mobile elements and depletion of
high-field-strength elements, similar to those that evolved in the subduction environment, but …

Constraining the volume of Earth's early oceans with a temperature‐dependent mantle water storage capacity model

J Dong, RA Fischer, LP Stixrude… - Agu …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The water content in Earth's mantle today remains poorly constrained, but the bulk water
storage capacity in the solid mantle can be quantified based on experimental data and may …

The solid Earth's influence on sea level

CP Conrad - Bulletin, 2013‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Because it lies at the intersection of Earth's solid, liquid, and gaseous components, sea level
links the dynamics of the fluid part of the planet with those of the solid part of the planet …

Water concentration in single‐crystal (Al, Fe)‐bearing bridgmanite grown from the hydrous melt: Implications for dehydration melting at the topmost lower mantle

S Fu, J Yang, S Karato, A Vasiliev… - Geophysical …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
High‐quality single‐crystals of (Al, Fe)‐bearing bridgmanite, Mg0. 88 Fe3+ 0.065 Fe2+
0.035 Al0. 14Si0. 90O3, of hundreds of micrometer size were synthesized at 24 GPa and …