The first report of water/hydrolytic weakening of silicate minerals was based on the observation that the strength of quartz decreases significantly in the presence of the water released from talc, the confining medium used in some of high-pressure experiments (Blacic and Griggs 1965). Subsequently, a number of researchers have studied this important phenomenon in several different minerals. Publications examining the influence of water or protons on the creep behavior of nominally anhydrous silicate minerals are listed in Table 11. Initial studies treated the water-weakening phenomenon as an on-off process; that is, minerals and rocks are weak under hydrous...
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