Correction to: Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0554-9, published online 16 March 2020.

In the version of this Article originally published, not all funding from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft had been included. In the Acknowledgements, the sentence “The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft financially supported this research through grant JO 349/5–1” has now been modified to read “The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) financially supported this research through grant JO 349/5–1 and grant CRC 1114 ‘Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems’, Project Number 235221301, Project (C09) – ‘Dynamics of rock dehydration on multiple scales’.”