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Also, “water” (quotes due to the fact it’s hard to actually call it water under these conditions) and sea floor minerals like carbonates change the actual visco
by lazide 2y ago
Also, “water” (quotes due to the fact it’s hard to actually call it water under these conditions) and sea floor minerals like carbonates change the actual viscosity and chemical composition of the magma in interesting ways that encourage all this too. It’s not just bulk water flashing to steam.
- dredmorbius 2y agoThanks. I should note that this is all well outside my scope of expertise. Though the raw amounts of water in subducted seafloor are apparently immense. Something which really hadn't occurred to me until recently.
- lazide 2y agoNot widely known I think - here is a neat write up on it [https://repository.geologyscience.ru/bitstream/handle/123456789/37061/Mann_04.pdf?sequence=1 https://repository.geologyscience.ru/bitstream/handle/123456...] And another [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2002GC000392 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...]
- dredmorbius 2y agoThanks!