Which outcome occurs when seawater permeates subducting lithosphere?

💡 Explanation

Partial melting of the mantle wedge occurs because **flux melting** introduces water into already hot peridotite lowering its melting point; therefore, magma production increases, fueling volcanism, rather than other options which require altered thermal conditions and plate movement.

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