Coupling between fluids and rock deformation in the continental crust:Preface

摘要

1.Introduction Fluids are essential and widespread components of the Earth crust.They regulate the main process of mass and energy transport,conditioning the geochemical and geophysical evolution of the crust(Bredehoeft and Norton.1990)and,consequently,its properties and mechanical behavior.The coupling between fluids,rock deformation,and heat are crucial engines for plate tectonics,playing a leading role in the rheology and evolution of the lithosphere(e.g.Jamtveit et al.,2000;Kennedy and van Soest,2007;Thompson,2010;Miller.2013;Yardley and Bodnar,2014:Hirauchi et al.,2016:Menzies et al.,2016;Plümper et al.,2017;Vizán et al.,2017).