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4. Most of the peridotite samples are from the lithosphere and contain relatively low water content (31) probably due to partial melting of the samples (32 33). Also the recent experimental studies with a high-resolution gas-medium apparatus are made at low confining pressures (<0.5 GPa) and therefore the water content in olivine is low [∼200 parts per million (ppm) H/Si] as compared with that in the asthenosphere [∼800 to 3000 ppm H/Si (34)]. The higher end of this estimate corresponds to subduction zone upper mantle and the lower end to source regions of mid-oceanic ridge basalt.
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