Citation: | Stuart Crampin, Yuan Gao. 2018: Evidence supporting New Geophysics. Earth and Planetary Physics, 2(3): 173-188. DOI: 10.26464/epp2018018 |
In the last decade a New Geophysics has been proposed, whereby the crust and uppermost ~400 km of the mantle of the Earth are so pervaded by closely-spaced stress-aligned microcracks (intergranular films of hydrated melt in the mantle) that