Global nitrogen cycle: critical enzymes, organisms, and processes for nitrogen budgets and dynamics

X Zhang, BB Ward, DM Sigman - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is used in many of life's fundamental biomolecules, and it is also a participant in
environmental redox chemistry. Biogeochemical processes control the amount and form of N …

Subduction-driven volatile recycling: A global mass balance

DV Bekaert, SJ Turner, MW Broadley… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Volatile elements (water, carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, halogens, and noble gases) played an
essential role in the secular evolution of the solid Earth and emergence of life. Here we …

The nitrogen budget of Earth

B Johnson, C Goldblatt - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
We comprehensively compile and review N content in geologic materials to calculate a new
N budget for Earth. Using analyses of rocks and minerals in conjunction with N–Ar …

Nitrogen-enhanced greenhouse warming on early Earth

C Goldblatt, MW Claire, TM Lenton, AJ Matthews… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Early in Earth's history, the Sun provided less energy to the Earth than it does today.
However, the Earth was not permanently glaciated, an apparent contradiction known as the …

Environmental effects on ammonium adsorption onto clay minerals: Experimental constraints and applications

AJ Yu, X Lin, J Zhu, H He, L Li - Applied Clay Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Adsorption of ammonium (NH 4+) by clay minerals in soil/sediment and altered
oceanic crust plays an important role in Earth's geological nitrogen cycle by transporting …

Ammonium stability and nitrogen isotope fractionations for NH4+–NH3 (aq)–NH3 (gas) systems at 20–70 C and pH of 2–13: Applications to habitability and nitrogen …

L Li, BS Lollar, H Li, UG Wortmann… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Ammonium/ammonia is an essential nutrient and energy source to support life in oceanic
and terrestrial hydrothermal systems. Thus the stability of ammonium is crucial to determine …

Nitrogen speciation in mantle and crustal fluids

Y Li, H Keppler - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
Seventy-nine experiments have been carried out at 600–1400° C, 2–35 kbar, and oxygen
fugacities ranging from the Fe–FeO to the Re–ReO 2 buffer to investigate the nitrogen …

Nitrogen in the silicate Earth: Speciation and isotopic behavior during mineral–fluid interactions

V Busigny, GE Bebout - Elements, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Nitrogen is the main constituent of Earth's atmosphere and a key component of the
biosphere, but it is a trace element in the major silicate reservoirs. The relatively low …

Diamond isotope compositions indicate altered igneous oceanic crust dominates deep carbon recycling

K Li, L Li, DG Pearson, T Stachel - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
A long-standing unresolved problem in understanding Earth's deep carbon cycle is whether
crustal carbon is recycled beyond arc depths. While isotopic signatures of eclogitic …

Devolatilization history and trace element mobility in deeply subducted sedimentary rocks: Evidence from Western Alps HP/UHP suites

GE Bebout, P Agard, K Kobayashi, T Moriguti… - Chemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Metapelitic rocks of the Schistes Lustrés in the Cottian Alps, Italy (peak metamorphic
conditions of 350–500° C, 1.2–2.0 GPa) and at the UHP Lago di Cignana locality …