It is complicate. It would take me a while if I choose to answer them, and frankly, no one knows the details for sure so far.
I am a geochemist and Baggins is a geologist. I would like to see the explanation!
An extremely rough idea is called "fractionation". That is why we got so called the hydrothermal deposit.
Fractionation, as in fractional crystallization? Hydrothermal deposits do indeed form from the late-stage crystallization of elements that don't like to hang out in more common higher temp minerals (as in
pegmatite deposits), and indeed these phases often contain hydrous minerals, but as you know, these hydrothermal deposits are largely felsic if I recall. So what does this have to do with ultramafics like lherzolite?
I'm even more curious now about the mechanisms you propose.
The hard part of your question is on the rate. We do know kimberlitic magma is very wet and erupted very very quickly (incredibly fast).
Not just rate but quantities as well. If you wish to simultaneously erupt kimberlite pipes up through the crust all over the world, and then remobilize not just the intra-crystalline water but the water from thermal decomposition of
hydroxides then you will have quite a catastrophe on your hands.
The water in kimberlitic magma must have accumulated in the asthenosphere for a long time. Beside, it is not likely that water would tickle up. It must have gone up in an eruption style. What would this water do as it accumulates in the mantle is anybody's guess. That is why the idea of "accelerated tectonics" is not only still around, but is getting hotter.
Could you do me a great favor on this, please list specifically which mineral phases you are discussing here as well as
what the nature of the water is that is in these phases.
Not all water is the same in a crystal. Some of it comes out only with a great deal of work and heat, some may be
adsorbed and some may be
absorbed.
I need to know how much (on a molar percentage) we are talking here is in your water budget.
If you could imagine the early earth had a much faster pace on all these processes, it is not impossible that a lot of water could erupted in a pretty short period of time.
Any evidence for this "accelerated tectonics"?
We know a similar process is probably still active on Venus today.
Venus, last I heard, has a very strange tectonics that basically amounts to "repaving" the surface every couple tens of millions of years. What evidence do we have of global flood basalts on earth? We do have localized wide-extent flood basalts, but not like Venus.
Also, once the water is out, it will not go back to the mantle. Why do you suggest that it will be back?
Well, considering that we are alive today on dry land, it had to go somewhere. You wish to remobilize all the water in the mantle, and it's there today (or you wouldn't have a water budget for this particular mental exercise) so either you are assuming there was EVEN MORE water available and it just disappeared after the Flood or it went back there.