Ingassing, storage, and outgassing of terrestrial carbon through geologic time

R Dasgupta - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earth is unique among the terrestrial planets in our solar system in having a fluid envelope
that fosters life. The secrets behind Earth's habitable climate are well-tuned cycles of carbon …

Diamond formation—Where, when and how?

T Stachel, RW Luth - Lithos, 2015 - Elsevier
Geothermobarometric calculations for a worldwide database of inclusions in diamond
indicate that formation of the dominant harzburgitic diamond association occurred …

The oxidation state of the mantle and the extraction of carbon from Earth's interior

V Stagno, DO Ojwang, CA McCammon, DJ Frost - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Determining the oxygen fugacity of Earth's silicate mantle is of prime importance because it
affects the speciation and mobility of volatile elements in the interior and has controlled the …

Sources and mobility of carbonate melts beneath cratons, with implications for deep carbon cycling, metasomatism and rift initiation

S Tappe, RL Romer, A Stracke, A Steenfelt… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Kimberlite and carbonatite magmas that intrude cratonic lithosphere are among the deepest
probes of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Their co-existence on thick continental shields is …

Mantle–slab interaction and redox mechanism of diamond formation

YN Palyanov, YV Bataleva, AG Sokol… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - pnas.org
Subduction tectonics imposes an important role in the evolution of the interior of the Earth
and its global carbon cycle; however, the mechanism of the mantle–slab interaction remains …

Metasomatism in lithospheric mantle roots: Constraints from whole-rock and mineral chemical composition of deformed peridotite xenoliths from kimberlite pipe …

AM Agashev, DA Ionov, NP Pokhilenko, AV Golovin… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
We report new data on the geochemical evolution, metasomatic and deformation processes
in the lower layers of cratonic lithospheric mantle based on a detailed study of …

Alkali-carbonate melts from the base of cratonic lithospheric mantle: Links to kimberlites

AV Golovin, IS Sharygin, VS Kamenetsky… - Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Identification of the primary compositions of mantle-derived melts is crucial for
understanding mantle compositions and physical conditions of mantle melting. However …

High water contents in the Siberian cratonic mantle linked to metasomatism: An FTIR study of Udachnaya peridotite xenoliths

LS Doucet, AH Peslier, DA Ionov, AD Brandon… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2014 - Elsevier
The processes that control water distribution in nominally anhydrous minerals from
peridotites are twofold. Melt depletion will remove water while metasomatism can potentially …

The redox geodynamics linking basalts and their mantle sources through space and time

F Gaillard, B Scaillet, M Pichavant, G Iacono-Marziano - Chemical Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
The Earth's mantle redox state regulates the fate and transfer of metals by magmatism,
buffers the igneous inputs of volcanic gases in the atmosphere and controls the depth of …

Thermal state, oxygen fugacity and C O H fluid speciation in cratonic lithospheric mantle: New data on peridotite xenoliths from the Udachnaya kimberlite, Siberia

AG Goncharov, DA Ionov, LS Doucet… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Oxygen fugacity (fO2) and temperature variations in a complete lithospheric mantle section
(70–220km) of the central Siberian craton are estimated based on 42 peridotite xenoliths in …