Lab study suggests small layer of water, CO2 and silicate lies beneath tectonic plates
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 09:31
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working in France is suggesting in a paper they've had published in the journal Nature, that the uppermost part of the asthenosphere consists of a thin layer of water, carbon dioxide and silicate. Lab testing by the team has shown that such a layer could explain virtually all of the real-world testing results found by planet scientists. Bob Evans of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute sums up the work by the team in a News & Views piece in the same journal issue.