Subducting carbon

T Plank, CE Manning - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A hidden carbon cycle exists inside Earth. Every year, megatons of carbon disappear into
subduction zones, affecting atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen over Earth's history …

A revised budget for Cenozoic sedimentary carbon subduction

PD Clift - Reviews of Geophysics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon plays a pivotal role in governing the climate and biosphere of Earth, yet
quantification of carbon's long‐term cycling from the mantle to the surface remains …

Magmatic water content controls the pre-eruptive depth of arc magmas

DJ Rasmussen, TA Plank, DC Roman, MM Zimmer - Science, 2022 - science.org
Vanguard efforts in forecasting volcanic eruptions are turning to physics-based models,
which require quantitative estimates of magma conditions during pre-eruptive storage …

Komatiites reveal a hydrous Archaean deep-mantle reservoir

AV Sobolev, EV Asafov, AA Gurenko, NT Arndt… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Archaean komatiites (ultramafic lavas) result from melting under extreme conditions of the
Earth's mantle. Their chemical compositions evoke very high eruption temperatures, up to …

Sulfur_X: A model of sulfur degassing during magma ascent

S Ding, T Plank, PJ Wallace… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The degassing of CO2 and S from arc volcanoes is fundamentally important to global
climate, eruption forecasting, ore deposits, and the cycling of volatiles through subduction …

A calcium-in-olivine geohygrometer and its application to subduction zone magmatism

M Gavrilenko, C Herzberg, C Vidito, MJ Carr… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
High-precision electron microprobe analyses were obtained on olivine grains from
Klyuchevskoy, Shiveluch and Gorely volcanoes in the Kamchatka Arc; Irazú, Platanar and …

Silicate melt inclusions in the new millennium: A review of recommended practices for preparation, analysis, and data presentation

EF Rose-Koga, AS Bouvier, GA Gaetani, PJ Wallace… - Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mineral-hosted melt inclusions have become an important source of information on
magmatic processes. As the number of melt inclusion studies increases, so does the need to …

Olivine-hosted melt inclusions: a microscopic perspective on a complex magmatic world

PJ Wallace, T Plank, RJ Bodnar… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Inclusions of basaltic melt trapped inside of olivine phenocrysts during igneous
crystallization provide a rich, crystal-scale record of magmatic processes ranging from …

Vapor-bubble growth in olivine-hosted melt inclusions

DJ Rasmussen, TA Plank, PJ Wallace… - American …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Melt inclusions record the depth of magmatic processes, magma degassing paths, and
volatile budgets of magmas. Extracting this information is a major challenge. It requires …

Magma decompression rate correlates with explosivity at basaltic volcanoes—Constraints from water diffusion in olivine

A Barth, M Newcombe, T Plank, H Gonnermann… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the strong theoretical basis for the importance of magma decompression rate in
modulating the dynamics of explosive basaltic eruptions, few measurements exist. Here, we …