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The future of deep carbon science featured prominently at the recent Mineralogical Society of America Centennial Symposium, 20-21 June 2019 in Washington, DC.
Ancient, isolated groundwaters sampled from 2.7 billion year old rocks at Kidd Creek Observatory in Canada support a tenacious community of microbes that survive on the products of water-rock…
A new initiative entitled The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Uncharted Interface, is receiving more than $8 million annually for seven years to investigate the interactions among biological, geological, and…
A recent study demonstrates that deep-sea microbes prefer to maintain their high-pressure lifestyles uninterrupted when visiting researchers’ laboratories, compared to excursions where they…
The Deep Time Data-Driven Discovery group is a coalition of researchers seeking to answer questions about the evolution of planetary systems through data science tools.
An analysis of bits of magma inside olivine crystals from 3.3 billion-year-old rocks suggests that ocean crust was already being recycled back into the subsurface then. The discovery points to an…
"This decade of discovery has laid a strong foundation for deep carbon science continuing well beyond 2019."
A collection of papers on "Deep Matter and Energy" highlights the role of deep volatiles in mediating major Earth processes and spans a broad range of deep carbon science.
The Materials of the Universe Workshop brought together experts from astrophysics, planetary science, physics, chemistry, biology, materials science and engineering to define grand questions and…
A special collection of papers focused on “Carbon Degassing Through Volcanoes and Active Tectonic Regions” brings together discoveries from the DECADE (Deep Earth Carbon Degassing) initiative and…
An analysis of crystals in volcanic rocks suggests that during Iceland’s Borgarhraun eruption, magma ascended rapidly from the base of the crust, reaching the surface in just days to weeks.