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Caption: Figure 14.
The evolution of the water lost from the mantle (left panel) and the net amount of water lost from the mantle (right panel). Occasional decreases in the amount of water lost from the mantle over time are due to large ingassing events. The simulations that exhibit Type II behavior are colored blue, while all other simulations are colored black. The simulations that exhibit Type II behavior end with more net water lost from their mantle for the same initial amount of water in their mantle than all other simulations. Note that no simulations lose their entire initial inventory of water from their mantles.
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