Sentence examples for dry mantle from inspiring English sources

Consequently, a nearly dry mantle residue would be left behind to form the dry cratonic peridotites.

Hyndman and Peacock (2003) pointed out that because dry mantle rocks should be much stronger than crustal rocks, interplate earthquakes would be expected to occur at a considerable depth beneath a dry forearc mantle wedge.

Note that this model calculation is aimed to assess the role of variable F and Cl partition coefficients in wet and dry mantle, in order to extract robust systematics.

Regarding the genesis of komatiite, there was a controversy as to whether komatiites were derived from wet or dry mantle (Arndt et al. 1998; Grove and Parman 2004) since komatiites were first recognized by Viljoen and Viljoen (1969).

It is now known that komatiites can be generated not only by high-temperature and high-pressure partial melting in dry mantle (Takahashi and Scarfe 1985) but also under much lower temperature and pressure conditions in hydrous mantle plumes (Inoue and Sawamoto 1992; Inoue et al. 2000).

They presented a hypothesis that the PH plate is divided into eastern and western parts by the serpentine boundary: the eastern part is the metamorphosed (serpentinized) mantle and the western part is the unmetamorphosed (dry) mantle, and the relative movement between the two parts is a right-lateral motion.

The dehydration-stiffening proposed by Korenaga (2009b) is based on an assumption that the difference in the viscosities between wet and dry mantles is large, by up to three orders of magnitude (Korenaga 2009).

The dry cratonic mantle might be stabilized against convective instability for a long time because of its high viscosity (e.g., Eaton and Perry 2013).

The presence of dry slab mantle is also identified by the observation of a strong S-wave velocity jump at the bottom subducted ocean crust detected by receiver function tomography of NE Japan (Kawakatsu and Watada 2007).

In constructing synthetic anisotropic 1D models, we consider a model of lithosphere formation where a compositional lithosphere is formed at the mid-ocean ridge with ~ 60 km thickness, consisting of a depleted and dry residual mantle (Evans et al. 2005; Baba et al. 2006), with potentially complex fabric depending on flow patterns at ridge.

These authors further argued that acceptable models will require a dry-olivine mantle rheology and that heat production is provided by thorium only, as predicted by the formation model with late evaporation of silicates (Fegley and Cameron 1987).