Super-hydration and reduction of manganese oxide minerals at shallow terrestrial depths

Seohee Yun; Huijeong Hwang; Gilchan Hwang; Yeongkyoo Kim; Douglas Blom; Thomas Vogt; Jeffrey E. Post; Tae-Yeol Jeon; Tae Joo Shin; Dong-Zhou Zhang; Hiroyuki Kagi; Yongjae Lee

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29328-y

Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Super-hydration and reduction of manganese oxide minerals at shallow terrestrial depths

Seohee Yun,
Huijeong Hwang,
Gilchan Hwang,
Yeongkyoo Kim,
Douglas Blom,
Thomas Vogt,
Jeffrey E. Post,
Tae-Yeol Jeon,
Tae Joo Shin,
Dong-Zhou Zhang,
Hiroyuki Kagi,
Yongjae Lee

Affiliations

Seohee Yun: Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University
Huijeong Hwang: Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University
Gilchan Hwang: Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University
Yeongkyoo Kim: School of Earth System Sciences, Kyungpook National University
Douglas Blom: Nano Center and Department of Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina
Thomas Vogt: Nano Center, Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina
Jeffrey E. Post: Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution
Tae-Yeol Jeon: Beamline Science Division, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory
Tae Joo Shin: Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, UNIST
Dong-Zhou Zhang: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Hiroyuki Kagi: Geochemical Research Center, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Yongjae Lee: Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29328-y
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The enigmatic relationship of birnessite and buserite, the two most representative phases in submarine nodules, has been established to reveal that buserite is a super-hydrated form of birnessite, forming at shallow terrestrial depth in the presence of water

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ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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