Carbonatites: classification, sources, evolution, and emplacement

GM Yaxley, M Anenburg, S Tappe… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Carbonatites are igneous rocks formed in the crust by fractional crystallization of carbonate-
rich parental melts that are mostly mantle derived. They dominantly consist of carbonate …

Negative emissions technologies and reliable sequestration: a research agenda

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
To achieve goals for climate and economic growth," negative emissions
technologies"(NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play …

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 …

Evolution of Earth's tectonic carbon conveyor belt

RD Müller, B Mather, A Dutkiewicz, T Keller, A Merdith… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Concealed deep beneath the oceans is a carbon conveyor belt, propelled by plate tectonics.
Our understanding of its modern functioning is underpinned by direct observations, but its …

Deglacial volcanism and reoxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth

M Li, Y Xu, L Sun, J Chen, K Zhang, D Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The Cryogenian Sturtian and Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciations bracket a nonglacial
interval during which Demosponge and green-algal biomarkers first appear. To understand …

Deep carbon cycles constrained by a large-scale mantle Mg isotope anomaly in eastern China

SG Li, W Yang, S Ke, X Meng, H Tian… - National Science …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Although deep carbon recycling plays an important role in the atmospheric CO2 budget and
climate changes through geological time, the precise mechanisms remain poorly …

A wet heterogeneous mantle creates a habitable world in the Hadean

Y Miyazaki, J Korenaga - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The Hadean eon, following the global-scale melting of the mantle,–, is expected to be a
dynamic period, during which Earth experienced vastly different conditions. Geologic …

Engineered carbon mineralization in ultramafic rocks for CO2 removal from air: Review and new insights

PB Kelemen, N McQueen, J Wilcox, P Renforth… - Chemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Carbon Dioxide removal from air (CDR) combined with permanent solid storage can be
accomplished via carbon mineralization in ultramafic rocks in at least four ways: 1. Surficial …

Zinc isotopic evidence for recycled carbonate in the deep mantle

XY Zhang, LH Chen, XJ Wang, T Hanyu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Carbonate, the major carbon reservoir on Earth's surface, can enter into the mantle by
subduction. However, evidence for recycled surficial carbonates in the deep mantle is still …

Geodynamics of kimberlites on a cooling Earth: Clues to plate tectonic evolution and deep volatile cycles

S Tappe, K Smart, T Torsvik, M Massuyeau… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Kimberlite magmatism has occurred in cratonic regions on every continent. The global age
distribution suggests that this form of mantle melting has been more prominent after 1.2 Ga …