Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Molybdenum systematics of subducted crust record reactive fluid flow from underlying slab serpentine dehydration

  • Shuo Chen,
  • Remco C. Hin,
  • Timm John,
  • Richard Brooker,
  • Ben Bryan,
  • Yaoling Niu,
  • Tim Elliott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12696-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Fluid liberation and migration from subducted oceanic slabs play a critical role in arc magmatism but the volume and origin of the released fluids is unclear and difficult to trace. Here, the authors use Molybdenum isotope ratios to tackle these problems.