WATER IN THE EARTHS UPPER MANTLE

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THOMPSON, AB
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[1] Departement für Erdwissenschaften, ETH, Zürich
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10.1038/358295a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Experiments on the stability of hydrous minerals likely to be present in the Earth's mantle provide constraints on the distribution of water in the mantle, and the form in which it is stored. In regions of elevated mantle temperature, water may be stored not in minerals but in melts: such hydrous melts are important metasomatizing agents, and can induce volcanism beneath thick cratonic lithosphere.
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