Saline aqueous fluid circulation in mantle wedge inferred from olivine wetting properties

The authors here perform experiments to investigate the dihedral angle of olivine-H2O and olivine-H2O-NaCl systems. The observed effect of NaCl to decrease dihedral angles allows fluids to percolate through forearc mantle wedge and to accumulate in the overlying crust, accounting for the high electr...

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Main Authors: Yongsheng Huang, Takayuki Nakatani, Michihiko Nakamura, Catherine McCammon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13513-7