“…Previous studies show thermal conductivities of diopside (C. Wang et al, 2014), enstatite (Hunt et al, 2011) and quartz (Yoon et al, 2004), are higher than those of tremolite at the temperature range of 1,173-1,373 K (dehydration stage), while new phases may be in amorphous state during the dehydration process (Faust & Fahey, 1962), which led to a significant decrease in thermal conductivity (Seipold & Schilling, 2003). Melting of minerals may also affect the thermal conductivity (Sukenaga et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2022), however, melts were not observed in our samples according to BSE images (Figure 2), which is similar to a previous study (Shen et al, 2020). Therefore, we propose that after dehydration, thermal conductivity was controlled by aqueous fluids.…”