While the plates carry water to the Earth's interior, phase transitions of dry olivine, the main mineral in the plates, are thought to be responsible for deep-focus earthquakes and plate deformation.
RECENTLY, Weedon 1 has argued that the presence of corona structures surrounding olivines in the Aberdeenshire gabbros implies a low pressure of crystallization, equivalent to a depth of burial of ...
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