{"id":230171,"date":"2026-01-30T17:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/how-a-superionic-state-enables-long-term-water-storage-in-earths-interior"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:05:12","slug":"how-a-superionic-state-enables-long-term-water-storage-in-earths-interior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/how-a-superionic-state-enables-long-term-water-storage-in-earths-interior","title":{"rendered":"How a superionic state enables long-term water storage in Earth\u2019s interior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-superionic-state-enables-long-term-water-storage-in-earths-interior2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cycling of water within Earth\u2019s interior regulates plate tectonics, volcanism, ocean volume, and climate stability, making it central to the planet\u2019s long-term evolution and habitability and a key scientific question. While subducting slabs are known to transport water into the mantle, scientists have long assumed that most hydrous minerals dehydrate at high temperatures, releasing fluids as they descend.<\/p>\n<p>Whether water can survive the extreme conditions of the deep lower mantle, however, has remained an open question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cycling of water within Earth\u2019s interior regulates plate tectonics, volcanism, ocean volume, and climate stability, making it central to the planet\u2019s long-term evolution and habitability and a key scientific question. While subducting slabs are known to transport water into the mantle, scientists have long assumed that most hydrous minerals dehydrate at high temperatures, releasing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}