Water and Plate Tectonics
Abstract
Tectonic plates experience an extension responsible for the development of a large network of normal faults that allow seawater to penetrate into the oceanic crust, as deep as 4 km. The presence of volcanic ash, the geometry, the archeological, faunal content of sedimentary deposits, and the radiocarbon dating criteria, converge for the interpretation of the tsunami deposits as coeval with the Minoan Santorini eruption. The oceanic hydrothermal activity involves an important set of mineralogical reactions at the origin of chemical fluxes that take place between the rocks of the oceanic crust and seawater. A simple mass balance calculation can be easily performed to estimate the water flux that is transferred to the mantle through the subduction zones. One main mechanism of continental growth is the melting of mantle rocks in subduction zones. With increasing depth, the temperature increases (the geothermal gradient is about 30°C.km−1) favoring the melting of rocks.
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The presence of surface water on a terrestrial planet may be a critical factor in determining whether plate tectonics may initiate and sustain itself over million-year timescales.
“As such, the presence of surface water on a terrestrial planet may be a critical factor in determining whether plate tectonics may initiate and sustain itself over million-year timescales”
From Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth (2020) · cites this paper as Lécuyer, 2013
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Secular change and the onset of plate tectonics on Earth
Palin, R. M., Santosh, M., Cao, W., Li, S.-S., Hernández-Uribe, D., & Parsons, A. (2020) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103172 · Cited by 355 · see citing works
“As such, the presence of surface water on a terrestrial planet may be a critical factor in determining whether plate tectonics may initiate and sustain itself over million-year timescales (Regenauer-Lieb et al., 2001; Lécuyer, 2013; Wade et al., 2017).”
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- Authors
- Lécuyer, C.
- Corresponding author
- Lécuyer, Christophe
- ORCID
- Lécuyer, Christophe
- Venue
- Water on Earth
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-11-27
- Pages
- 113-154
- OpenAlex
- W1571827232
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2020: 3
- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geology › Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Keywords
- plate tectonics, normal faults, oceanic crust, saltwater intrusion, tsunami deposits, Santorini eruption, Minoan eruption, hydrothermal activity, subduction zone, mantle melting, crustal growth, geothermal gradient, mass balance
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