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In olivine of upper mantle derivation, CO2 is the most commonly reported species of fluid1. Despite its great importance in the upper mantle2, H2O has rarely been reported (refs 3, 4 and E. Roedder, personal communication). Here we report that possible relics of H2O-rich fluid inclusions have been found in olivine of dunite from the alpine-type Iwanai-dake complex, northern Japan. These inclusions now consist mainly of serpentine and brucite, which may be the products of the reaction, olivine + H2O = serpentine + brucite, in a closed system. The abundance of such inclusions suggests that the Iwanai-dake complex may have been derived from the upper mantle in conditions in which some free H2O was available, such as the mantle wedge above a subduction zone.
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Arai, S., Hirai, H. Relics of H2O fluid inclusions in mantle-derived olivine. Nature 318, 276–277 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/318276a0
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