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March 08, 2016

Faults control the amount of water into the Earth during continental breakup
Southampton, UK (SPX) Mar 08, 2016
New light has been shed on the processes by which ocean water enters the solid Earth during continental breakup. Research led by geoscientists at the University of Southampton, and published in Nature Geoscience this week, is the first to show a direct link on geological timescales between fault activity and the amount of water entering the Earth's mantle along faults. When water and carbon is transferred from the ocean to the mantle it reacts with a dry rock called peridotite, which makes up most ... read more

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