Subducting passive continental margins with crustal (ultra)mafic intrusions: An underappreciated mechanism for recycling water back into the mantle

It is well known that outer rise bending-assisted oceanic plate hydration is an important mechanism for transporting substantial amounts of water into the mantle. A key question is: Are there other equally or more important water transport mechanisms? Here we propose, for the first time, that subduc...

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Main Authors: CaiCai Pan, XiaoBo He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Press 2023-09-01
Series:Earth and Planetary Physics
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Online Access:http://www.eppcgs.org/article/doi/10.26464/epp2023074?pageType=en