Rupture of wet mantle wedge by self-promoting carbonation

Carbonation of a serpentinized mantle wedge is associated with volume reduction and fluid over-pressurization which drives brittle fracture and seismicity, according to chemical analyses of carbonate veins from the Sanbagawa belt Japan and thermodynamic calculations.

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Main Authors: Atsushi Okamoto, Ryosuke Oyanagi, Kazuki Yoshida, Masaoki Uno, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/040d7e380cfd489c96698db06770b7df
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