Nature

Nature has published a special collection of DCO research that previously appeared in Nature journals, along with commissioned review articles elucidating recent progress in deep carbon science. The collection of 44 publications demonstrates DCO has increased understanding of the diversity, population sizes, and metabolic activities of deep microbes; the quantities and forms of carbon in the core, mantle, and crust; how Earth’s formation and evolution dictated the current distribution of carbon; the creation of organic carbon compounds independent of life; and the formation and release of carbon dioxide through various tectonic processes.

The collection opens with a question and answer interview with DCO leaders Robert Hazen (Carnegie Institution for Science, USA), executive director of DCO, and Marie Edmonds (Cambridge University, UK), chair of Synthesis Group 2019, who spearheaded the collection. The core collection consists of nine articles and reviews, in addition to nine articles published by the Deep Life community, seven by the Deep Energy community, and 19 articles by members of the Reservoirs and Fluxes community.

Terry Plank (Columbia University, USA) and Craig Manning (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) authored the most recent review on Subducting Carbon, which addresses a variety of DCO research areas. Additional commissioned reviews will appear in Nature journals later this year. Many of the papers and commissioned review articles are freely available for 12 months.

Cite as: Plail, Melissa (Ed.)  (21 October 2019).  Deep Carbon [Nature.com Collection].  https://www.nature.com/collections/ccbjbgabec.

Core Collection