A paper first-authored by He Xuejing, a second-year PhD student, is now published in Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. From high-pressure and high-temperature vibrational spectroscopy, we show that silicon-rich phengite potentially carries water deeper in subduction zones.
He X., Zhang L., Kagi H., Smyth J.R., Komatsu K., Li X., Gao J., and Lei L. (2022) In-situ high-pressure and high-temprature spectroscopic studies of phengite in ultrahigh-pressure eclogite: Implication for water transport during ultra-deep continental subduction. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 49, 24. doi.org/10.1007/s00269-022-01196-4.