Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Water pumping in mantle shear zones

  • Jacques Précigout,
  • Cécile Prigent,
  • Laurie Palasse,
  • Anthony Pochon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15736
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Water plays a key role in many geological processes, including weakening crystals in the crust and mantle. Here, using amphibole distribution and olivine dislocation slip-systems, the authors show that ductile flow also has a dynamic control on water-rich fluid circulation in mantle shear zones.