WATER, MELTING, AND THE DEEP EARTH H2O CYCLE

MM Hirschmann - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Hydrous melting driven by changes in H2O storage capacity may occur in a variety of
settings in the mantle, including in oceanic basalt sources and in deeper regions above and …

Water in the slab: A trilogy

M Faccenda - Tectonophysics, 2014 - Elsevier
The geological and geophysical phenomena associated with water in the slab can be
grouped into three different categories: those related to 1) the storage of water in the oceanic …

Hydrous mantle transition zone indicated by ringwoodite included within diamond

DG Pearson, FE Brenker, F Nestola, J McNeill… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The ultimate origin of water in the Earth's hydrosphere is in the deep Earth—the mantle.
Theory and experiments,, have shown that although the water storage capacity of olivine …

Deformation of earth materials

S Karato - An introduction to the rheology of Solid Earth, 2008 - sutlib2.sut.ac.th
4.1 Introduction 51 4.2 Elastic constants 52 4.3 Isothermal versus adiabatic elastic constants
55 4.4 Experimental techniques 57 4.5 Some general trends in elasticity: Birch's law 59 4.6 …

A revised adiabatic temperature profile for the mantle

T Katsura - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study reevaluates the adiabatic temperature profile of the Earth's mantle. The global
average temperature at the 410‐km discontinuity is estimated to be 1839 (38) K by …

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 …

Seismic signature of the collision between the east Tibetan escape flow and the Sichuan Basin

Z Zhang, X Yuan, Y Chen, X Tian, R Kind, X Li… - Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
GPS displacement vectors show that the crust in east Tibet is being squeezed in an easterly
direction by the northward motion of the Indian plate, and the Sichuan Basin is resisting this …

Seismic detection of a deep mantle discontinuity within Mars by InSight

Q Huang, NC Schmerr, SD King… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Constraining the thermal and compositional state of the mantle is crucial for deciphering the
formation and evolution of Mars. Mineral physics predicts that Mars' deep mantle is …

Storage capacity of H2O in nominally anhydrous minerals in the upper mantle

MM Hirschmann, C Aubaud, AC Withers - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2005 - Elsevier
The H2O storage capacity of nominally anhydrous minerals or rocks is the concentration of
water that can be sequestered in the mineral (s) without stabilizing a hydrous fluid or melt …

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 …