Comment by mnky9800n

Yes.

For example:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0805794105

Peter Kelemen has written a lot of papers on this topic.

Here is a more recent paper that I wrote together with Peter and others currently in review:

https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/9651/

This is more about the mechanics of how the rock breaks to allow fluids to move around.

And here is another paper currently in review that we coauthored about how we know there’s gas moving in the system and therefore hydrogen is being produced:

https://essopenarchive.org/users/543018/articles/1363688-eni...

Tbh I have no idea why we didn’t submit these to arXiv instead of these other preprint servers.