Hydrous used in a sentence

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Breakdown of minerals with OH- such as hydrous ringwoodite at the top of the lower mantle results in dehydration melting.

When that oceanic crust then subducts back into the mantle, it heats up, the hydrous minerals are no longer stable, and they release their H2O into the overlying mantle.

This reaction is referred to as dehydration melting: the reaction of a hydrous mineral phase to form other mineral phases and a silicate liquid.

Thus, the authors suggest that downwelling of hydrous ringwoodite bearing mantle from above the 660 discontinuity to below it will result in a phase change to pervoskite + ferropericlase + silicate liquid, consistent with the presence of low velocity zones.