Which outcome occurs when differential stress initiates hydration during subduction?

💡 Explanation

Hydration leads to serpentinization, lowering the mantle wedge's melting point via flux melting, facilitating magma generation because water acts as a flux. Therefore, partial melting occurs rather than direct eclogite exhumation, lithospheric thinning, or basin formation, which result from different mechanisms.

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