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 …

The role of water in Earth's mantle

E Ohtani - National Science Review, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Geophysical observations suggest that the transition zone is wet locally. Continental and
oceanic sediment components together with the basaltic and peridotitic components might …

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 …

Intensive hydration of the mantle transition zone beneath China caused by ancient slab stagnation

T Kuritani, E Ohtani, JI Kimura - Nature Geoscience, 2011 - nature.com
The mantle transition zone, located at depths of 410–660 km between the lower and upper
mantle, is an important water reservoir in the Earth's interior,,,. However, there are regional …

A multi‐resolution finite‐element approach for global electromagnetic induction modeling with application to southeast China coastal geomagnetic observatory studies

H Yao, Z Ren, J Tang, K Zhang - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present a multi‐resolution finite‐element approach for three‐dimensional (3D)
electromagnetic (EM) induction modeling in spherical Earth. First, the secondary electric …

Probing 3-D electrical conductivity of the mantle using 6 years of Swarm, CryoSat-2 and observatory magnetic data and exploiting matrix Q-responses approach

A Kuvshinov, A Grayver, L Tøffner-Clausen… - Earth, Planets and …, 2021 - Springer
This study presents results of mapping three-dimensional (3-D) variations of the electrical
conductivity in depths ranging from 400 to 1200 km using 6 years of magnetic data from the …

Hydrous minerals and the storage of water in the deep mantle

E Ohtani - Chemical Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Water is transported into the deep mantle via hydrous minerals in subducting slabs. During
subduction, a series of minerals in these slabs such as serpentine or chlorite, Mg–sursassite …

Global 3-D imaging of mantle conductivity based on inversion of observatory C-responses—II. Data analysis and results

A Semenov, A Kuvshinov - Geophysical Journal International, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The global 3-D electrical conductivity distribution in the mantle (in the depth range between
400 and 1600 km) is imaged by inverting C-responses estimated on a global net of …

Electrical conductivity imaging of the Philippine Sea upper mantle using seafloor magnetotelluric data

K Baba, H Utada, T Goto, T Kasaya, H Shimizu… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2010 - Elsevier
We performed a three-year seafloor electromagnetic survey in the Philippine Sea, including
the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, to image electrical features of a deep mantle slab …

Interpretation of magnetotelluric results using laboratory measurements

A Pommier - Surveys in Geophysics, 2014 - Springer
Magnetotelluric (MT) surveying is a remote sensing technique of the crust and mantle based
on electrical conductivity that provides constraints to our knowledge of the structure and …