A collection of papers presented at a conference co-sponsored by the Deep Carbon Observatory has been published as a new special issue of Russian Geology and Geophysics (Volume 56, Issue 1-2, January-February 2015). The volume, "Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy: Link to Deep Carbon Cycle," was edited by Nikolay V. Sobolev, Nikolay L. Dobretsov, Eiji Ohtani, Lawrence A. Taylor, Hans-Peter Schertl, and Yuri N. Palyanov. It contains 26 articles covering topics in geology and the deep carbon cycle, crystallogenesis and experimental mineralogy, diamond crystallogenesis, and diamond and kimberlite magmatism.
The special issue of Russian Geology and Geophysics contains key papers presented at the Symposium “Deep Carbon Cycle: Mineralogy and Crystal Chemistry of Carbon-Bearing Compounds” held as part of the Third International Conference on Crystallogenesis and Mineralogy in Novosibirsk, Russia, from 27 September to 1 October 2013.