Garnet is a nominally anhydrous mineral that can incorporate several hundreds of ppm H2O in the 8 form of OH groups, where H + substitutes for cations in the garnet structure. In order to understand the 9
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Introduction 34Garnet is a common metamorphic mineral formed during prograde dehydration reactions such as 35 encountered during the subduction of oceanic crust and sediments. The garnet formula contains 36 neither H2O nor OH groups, nevertheless it can incorporate several hundreds of ppm H2O as OH 37 groups where H + incorporation is charge-balanced by cation substitutions. Because of the large P-T 38 stability field of garnet, the incorporated H2O can be transported inside the slab to the deep mantle and 39 might play an important role in the Earth's deep water cycle. It is essential to know where the OH 40 groups are located in the garnet structure, and which coupled substitutions exist for the incorporation 41 of H + . The dominant substitution found so far is the replacement of a Si 4+ cation by 4H + , known as the 42 hydrogarnet point defect (Cohen-Addad et al. 1967;Foreman 1968;Lager et al. 1987). Other point 43 defects have been proposed, involving H + substitutions for dodecahedral and octahedral cations 44 Andrut et al. 2002;Basso et al. 1984;Geiger et al. 1991). Coupled substitutions have been invoked 45 such as H-B and H-Li point defects (Lu and Keppler 1997) and even incomplete silicon vacancies, 46 like 3H + substituting for a Si 4+ and being compensated by Ti 4+ in octahedral site (Khomenko et al. 47 1994), or Fe 3+ or Fe 2+ together with one of two H + in the tetrahedral site in Ti-rich garnets (Kühberger 48 et al. 1989). Recent studies support that multiple point defects are present in single garnet grains 49 (Geiger and Rossman 2018;Reynes, et al. 2018). It has been shown that garnet composition does 50 influence the incorporation of OH groups in the garnet structure. Garnet is a complex solid solution 51 involving various endmembers. Spessartine (Mn-Al), almandine (Fe 2+ -Al), pyrope (Mg-Al) constitute 52 the widespread pyralspite subfamily, whereas grossular (Ca-Al), andradite (Ca-Fe 3+ ) and uvarovite 53 (Ca-Cr 3+ ) belong to the ugrandite subfamily. Garnet dominated by ugrandite endmembers can 54 incorporate up to several wt.% H2O (Rossman and Aines 1991), whereas pyralspite garnets usually 55 incorporate only a few hundreds of ppm (Aines and Rossman 1984a). Spessartine can incorporate 56 more water (up to 1000 ppm H2O, Arredondo et al. 2001) than pyrope and almandine (< 150 ppm 57 H2O). Because garnet has these various solid solutions and their affinity for H2O seems to differ, a 58 correlation between major elements and OH groups at a comparable scale is needed. Major and minor 59 element chemistry of garnet is usually measured by Electron Probe Micro-Analysis (E...