Internal Evolution of the Water-Rock System: Nature and Mechanisms

摘要: Self-running internal evolution was thought for a long time to be possible in living systems only but, as the modern synergetic theory implies, it may occur inorganic complex well. The nonliving driven by formation of coherent atomic bonds nonequilibrium conditions, though no material proofs such hypothesis has been available. water-rock system investigated this study evolves spontaneously due its intrinsically contradictory equilibrium-nonequilibrium nature. Natural waters can never reach equilibrium with some mafic and ultramafic minerals they dissolve but are secondary phases produce while reacting ambient rocks. This is intrinsic water mantle-derived aluminosilicates that maintains global-scale system. continues, without exterior controls, at any place there rocks water, gives rise diverse associated certain compositions.