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 TITLE: Buried Hydrothermal Systems: The Potential Role of Supercritical Water,“ScriW”, in Various Geological Processes and Occurrences in the Sub-Surface

Therefore, we may, popularly, say that ScriW drives a gigantic underground refinery system and also a salt factory. It is suggested that the result of these processes is that ScriW is rejuvenating the world’s ocean waters, as all of the ocean water circulates into the porous oceanic crust and out again in cycles of less than a million years. In summary, we suggest that ScriW participates in and is partly responsible for: 

1) Ocean water rejuvenation and formation;

2) Fundamental geological processes, such as volcanism, earthquakes, and meta-morphism (including serpentinization); 

3) Solid salt production, accumulation, transportation, and (salt) dome formation;

4) The initiation and driving of mud, serpentine, and asphalt volcanoes; 

5) Dissolution of organic matter and petroleum, including transportation and phase separation (fractionation), when passing into the subcritical domain of (liquid) water.