New Bermudan-Type Intraplate Volcanism & Earth’s Hydrous Mantle Transition Zone (MTZ)

From Earth’s deep mantle, scientists discover a new way volcanoes form  (Blaine FRIEDLANDER, Cornell Chronicle; May 15, 2019)

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/05/earths-deep-mantle-scientists-discover-new-way-volcanoes-form

Featured Research Article:

Sampling the volatile-rich transition zone beneath Bermuda                      (MAZZA et al., 2019)

https://www.researchgate.net/journal/0028-0836_Nature/publication/333120353_Sampling_the_volatile-rich_transition_zone_beneath_Bermuda/links/5cdcef1aa6fdccc9ddb209ae/Sampling-the-volatile-rich-transition-zone-beneath-Bermuda.pdf?_sg%5B0%5D=0wwnH75FhhJZoK7jzuObetBS8TXeTUSD68fiKtSW0mLqxME_4jrqeZvBi-4ibHNlHyKzJh7GlZ5rO84EcPuyFw.MWJF9N-7CdqpOPhnMh_nxWi7MdkpQSWqtXXJhUz_D56ytcNMFQJjBtnlcWTnIJ2nhjki9I8mjex3ip4l-g8hgg&_sg%5B1%5D=Dv4BgCykyMFpO5rOvpwgj77-nLGnVLTIwIcjg0st7V2igSwxgWxT26s9KJfH7DP0HreE4Y5dwgNDw2X0ECR-36G2kVThBzM4xu-lSuQEOwbw.MWJF9N-7CdqpOPhnMh_nxWi7MdkpQSWqtXXJhUz_D56ytcNMFQJjBtnlcWTnIJ2nhjki9I8mjex3ip4l-g8hgg&_iepl=

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333120353_Sampling_the_volatile-rich_transition_zone_beneath_Bermuda

Side Note…

NOAA On the Volcanic Origins of Bermuda (Bernews; April 27, 2013)

http://bernews.com/2013/04/noaa-on-the-volcanic-origins-of-bermuda/

Mantle Transition Zone (MTZ):

Buoyant hydrous mantle plume from the mantle transition zone  (KURITANI et al., 2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43103-y.pdf?origin=ppub

A nearly water-saturated mantle transition zone inferred from mineral viscosity  (FEI et al., 2017)

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/3/6/e1603024.full.pdf

Continental flood basalts derived from the hydrous mantle transition zone  (WANG et al., 2015)

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8700.pdf?origin=ppub

Hydrous mantle transition zone indicated by ringwoodite included within diamond  (PEARSON et al., 2014)

https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/168146/files/10.1038_nature13080.pdf

Whole-mantle convection and the transition-zone water filter                    (BERCOVICI and KARATO, 2003)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shun-ichiro_Karato/publication/10583532_Bercovici_D_Karato_S_Whole-mantle_convection_and_the_transition-zone_water_filter_Nature_425_39-44/links/00b7d517ab864b5f33000000/Bercovici-D-Karato-S-Whole-mantle-convection-and-the-transition-zone-water-filter-Nature-425-39-44.pdf

Phase Transformations of Olivine [FeMg(SiO₄)] in Earth’s Mantle

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