Dual hydration of oceanic lithosphere

Fan Zhang; Jian Lin; Rixiang Zhu; Xubo Zhang; Jiangyang Zhang; Zhiyuan Zhou

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwad251

Dual hydration of oceanic lithosphere

Natl Sci Rev. 2023 Sep 22;10(11):nwad251. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad251. eCollection 2023 Nov.

Authors

Fan Zhang^{1

2}, Jian Lin^{2

1

3}, Rixiang Zhu⁴, Xubo Zhang^{1

2}, Jiangyang Zhang^{1

2}, Zhiyuan Zhou³

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
² China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences, CAS-HEC, Pakistan.
³ Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China.
⁴ Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Abstract

Water input budget of global oceanic lithosphere at different tectonic settings are quantitatively estimated. The results indicate that the hydration at subduction zone is fundamentally essential to plate dynamics and water cycle of the Earth.