“…Dry silicate minerals and rocks cannot result in high‐conductivity anomalies in the Earth's interior (Dai et al, 2014, 2016, 2019; Fuji‐ta et al, 2004; Hu et al, 2013; Yang et al, 2012). In contrast, geophysicists have shown that the high‐conductivity anomalies in the Earth's lithosphere can be caused by the presence of water in nominally anhydrous minerals (Dai & Karato, 2014; Karato, 2019; H. Y. Liu et al, 2019; Wang et al, 2006; Yang et al, 2011), interconnected aqueous fluids (Amiguet et al, 2012; X. Z. Guo et al, 2015; Li et al, 2018; Manthilake et al, 2015, 2016; Shimojuku et al, 2014; Sinmyo & Keppler, 2017), partial melting (Freitas et al, 2019; Gaillard, 2005; X. Guo et al, 2018; Laumonier et al, 2015, 2017; Maumus et al, 2005; H. W. Ni et al, 2011), and interconnected secondary high‐conductivity phases (Bagdassarov et al, 2009; Glover et al, 1996; Kawano et al, 2012; Manthilake et al, 2016; Wang et al, 2013; Zhang & Yoshino, 2016).…”