Water in the Earth's interior: distribution and origin

AH Peslier, M Schönbächler, H Busemann… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Water in the upper mantle and deep crust of eastern China: concentration, distribution and implications

QK **a, J Liu, I Kovács, YT Hao, P Li… - National Science …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the concentration and distribution of water in the Earth's mantle plays a
substantial role in studying its chemical, physical and dynamic processes. After a decade of …

Evidence for primordial water in Earth's deep mantle

LJ Hallis, GR Huss, K Nagashima, GJ Taylor… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The hydrogen-isotope [deuterium/hydrogen (D/H)] ratio of Earth can be used to constrain the
origin of its water. However, the most accessible reservoir, Earth's oceans, may no longer …

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 …

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 …

Bridgmanite is nearly dry at the top of the lower mantle

Z Liu, H Fei, L Chen, C McCammon, L Wang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Water solubility in the dominant lower-mantle bridgmanite phase remains controversial.
Discrepancies between previous results highlight the importance of the growth high-quality …

Deep mantle melting, global water circulation and its implications for the stability of the ocean mass

S Karato, B Karki, J Park - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2020 - Springer
Oceans on Earth are present as a result of dynamic equilibrium between degassing and
regassing through the interaction with Earth's interior. We review mineral physics …

Hydrogen and silicon are the preferred light elements in Earth's core

T Liu, Z **g - Communications Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Hydrogen is an important light element in the Earth's core for its high cosmochemical
abundance and strong affinity to iron under core-formation conditions. Thus, constraining the …

Large H2O solubility in dense silica and its implications for the interiors of water-rich planets

C Nisr, H Chen, K Leinenweber, A Chizmeshya… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Sub-Neptunes are common among the discovered exoplanets. However, lack of knowledge
on the state of matter in H 2 O-rich setting at high pressures and temperatures (P− T) places …

Evidence for H2O-bearing fluids in the lower mantle from diamond inclusion

M Palot, SD Jacobsen, JP Townsend, F Nestola… - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, we report the first direct evidence for water-bearing fluids in the uppermost
lower mantle from natural ferropericlase crystal contained within a diamond from São Luíz …