Water is no lubricant: Reassessment of the role of water in plate tectonics
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 12:00
in Earth & Climate
Water in the Earth's crust and upper mantle may not play such an important role as a lubricant of plate tectonics as previously assumed. This is a result geoscientists present in the current issue of the scientific journal Nature after the examination of water in the mineral olivine.