When I was young, the hotel rooms in the United Kingdom had the reputation of having a strange plumbing system, with noisy and leaking taps and irrational water flows along endless pipelines. This was of course a cliché entertained by the Froggies, but I like to visualise the cycle of terrestrial volatiles a bit like this. The Earth is a carefully tuned system which continuously exchanges its life-supporting elements between its interior –the mantle– and its surface –the atmosphere, the oceans and the crust– through main flow paths (ridge, arc and intraplate magmatism vs. subduction) but also through a...

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3.主要挥发物：碳和氮

当我年轻的时候，英国的酒店客房享有一种奇特的管道系统的声誉，水龙头嘈杂，漏水，并且沿着无尽的管道流动着不合理的水流。这当然是Froggies的陈词滥调，但是我喜欢这样直观地观察到地球挥发物的循环。地球是一个经过精心调整的系统，它通过主要流动路径（脊，弧和板内岩浆作用与俯冲作用）在内部（地幔）与其表面（大气，海洋和地壳）之间不断交换其维持生命的元素。还可以通过...