The fate of subducting carbon tracked by Mg and Zn isotopes: A review and new perspectives

SA Liu, YR Qu, ZZ Wang, ML Li, C Yang, SG Li - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Tracking the final fate of subducting carbon is crucial to understanding global carbon cycles
and climate changes in the history of the Earth. Available geochemical tracers such as …

Metal isotope complexation with environmentally relevant surfaces: opening the isotope fractionation black box

M Komárek, G Ratié, Z Vaňková, A Šípková… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The number of studies using various stable isotope systems for tracing contamination
sources and various biogeochemical processes is rapidly rising due to the increased …

Zinc isotope composition of the Earth and its behaviour during planetary accretion

PA Sossi, O Nebel, HSC O'Neill, F Moynier - Chemical Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
The terrestrial planets are depleted in volatile elements with respect to chondritic meteorites,
their possible building blocks. However, the timing, extent and origin of volatile depletion is …

Zinc isotope fractionation during mantle melting and constraints on the Zn isotope composition of Earth's upper mantle

ZZ Wang, SA Liu, J Liu, J Huang, Y Xiao, ZY Chu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
The zinc (Zn) stable isotope system has great potential for tracing planetary formation and
differentiation processes due to its chalcophile, lithophile and moderately volatile character …

Calcium isotopic fractionation in mantle peridotites by melting and metasomatism and Ca isotope composition of the Bulk Silicate Earth

JT Kang, DA Ionov, F Liu, CL Zhang, AV Golovin… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
To better constrain the Ca isotopic composition of the Bulk Silicate Earth (BSE) and explore
the Ca isotope fractionation in the mantle, we determined the Ca isotopic composition of 28 …

The Fe and Zn isotope composition of deep mantle source regions: Insights from Baffin Island picrites

AJ McCoy-West, JG Fitton, ML Pons, EC Inglis… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Young (61 Ma) unaltered picrites from Baffin Island, northeast Canada, possess some of the
highest 3 He/4 He (up to 50 Ra) seen on Earth, and provide a unique opportunity to study …

[HTML][HTML] The cadmium and zinc isotope compositions of the silicate Earth–Implications for terrestrial volatile accretion

H Pickard, E Palk, M Schönbächler, RET Moore… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Zinc and Cd isotope compositions are presented for a comprehensive suite of terrestrial
rocks to constrain the extent of Zn and Cd isotope fractionation during igneous processes …

Magnesium isotopic variation of oceanic island basalts generated by partial melting and crustal recycling

Y Zhong, LH Chen, XJ Wang, GL Zhang, LW Xie… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ocean island basalts (OIBs) are geochemically diverse in radiogenic isotopes, a feature that
is commonly ascribed to record the chemical heterogeneity of their deep-mantle source …

Zinc isotopic systematics of Kamchatka-Aleutian arc magmas controlled by mantle melting

J Huang, XC Zhang, S Chen, L Tang, G Wörner… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Geochemical characteristics of arc magmas reflect incorporation of subducted materials to
their mantle wedge sources in subduction zones. Subduction component addition has been …

Mantle heterogeneity through Zn systematics in oceanic basalts: Evidence for a deep carbon cycling

H Beunon, N Mattielli, LS Doucet, B Moine… - Earth-science reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Subduction at convergent margins introduces a range of sedimentary and crustal materials
into the mantle, providing the most dominant form of heterogeneity in the source of oceanic …