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Mapping the Growth of Seafloor Carbonates in Deep Time

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 enabled them to estimate the growth and eventual recycling of carbonate deposits through subduction over the last 120 million years.

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Announcing the Carbon Mineral Challenge: A Worldwide Hunt for New Carbon Minerals 16 December 2015 Feature

New research predicts at least 145 of Earth’s carbon-bearing minerals remain undiscovered. How many…

Exploring Diamond Formation in Deep Earth: Fluid-Rock Interactions and pH Drop 3 November 2015 Feature

During subduction, in which one tectonic plate dives beneath another, carbon is transferred from…

New Special Collection: Chemistry and Mineralogy of Earth's Mantle 29 September 2015 Feature

A new special collection of papers in American Mineralogist (contained in volumes 99 and 100)…

Subduction and the Deep Carbon Cycle 17 September 2015 Feature

As Earth’s tectonic plates move, carbon and other elements are cycled into and out of the crust,…

Probing Iron Chemistry in the Deep Mantle 15 May 2015 Feature

Carbonates are a group of minerals that contain the carbonate ion (CO32-) and a metal, such as iron…

New Constraints of Global Sulfur and Carbon Geodynamic Cycles 3 March 2015 Feature

Volcanism at mid-ocean ridges (MORs) and volcanic arcs arguably represents the main pathway of…

Novel Carbon Bonding at High Pressure 18 February 2015 Feature

Only a small fraction of our planet’s total carbon budget is found at the surface. In fact, Earth’s…

Orthorhombic Ferromagnesite as a Deep-Mantle Carbon Carrier 16 February 2015 Feature

How carbon is stored in Earth’s deep interior remains one of the key open questions in Earth…

Viscosity of Carbonate Melts Similar to Water, not Silicate Melts 14 October 2014 Feature

The occurrence and mobility of carbonate-rich melts in Earth’s mantle are important factors that…

DCO Field Report: North Pole Dome, Western Australia 8 July 2014 Feature

A DCO-sponsored team led by Martin Van Kranendonk (University of New South Wales), with geochemist…

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