ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Hydrous phases in the Earth’s lower mantle
The origin and survival of life on Earth depend on the availability of water. Plate tectonics connects the Earth’s surface with its deep interior and promotes exchange of H2O between the surface and the Earth’s mantle. The resultant deep H2O cycle has affected the evolution of the oceans and atmosphere on Earth and supplies H2O to the mantle. Rocks of the upper mantle may store H2O as defects in the crystal structures of nominally anhydrous minerals (NAMs). The NAMs of the lower mantle, however, incorporate significantly less H2O. As a consequence, the contribution of the lower mantle to the deep H2O cycle has been discounted as minor. HYDROSPHEAR challenges this paradigm by investigating…
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