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Using high-temperature and high-pressure experiments, researchers have determined the conditions causing calcium carbonate to take the form of calcite, aragonite, or a liquid. This represents a major…

The 29th Goldschmidt Conference will take place at the Center Convencions Internacional Barcelona (CCIB) in Barcelona, Spain, from 18-23 August 2019.

New tools that detect heavier forms of methane with “clumped isotopologues” can indicate a gas sample’s source and the temperature when it formed. More studies, however, will be needed to tease apart…

More than 28,000 scientists gathered in the US capital for the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting. As in past years, deep carbon science featured prominently throughout the conference, with DCO researchers…

For the first time, scientists have drilled deep into the Deccan Traps, a giant, 65-million-year-old lava flow in Western India, and the 2.5 billion-year-old rock beneath. DCO scientists from Indian…

EarthByte researchers combined their model of plate tectonics with records of carbonate layers logged from cores collected during scientific ocean drilling expeditions. Together, these resources…

In the carbon-rich sediments of the Baltic Sea, microbes use a variety of strategies to make a living from different types of organic material that have settled there, including making and consuming…

A new study uses computer simulations and spectroscopic techniques to look at how water molecules interact with the mantle mineral olivine.

Researchers compiled hundreds of studies of the types and numbers of microbes living in the terrestrial subsurface and carefully scaled the results to come up with estimates of the total number and…

Barely living "zombie" bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth's subsurface—245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the…