Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Subduction-related oxidation of the sublithospheric mantle evidenced by ferropericlase and magnesiowüstite diamond inclusions

  • Ekaterina S. Kiseeva,
  • Nester Korolev,
  • Iuliia Koemets,
  • Dmitry A. Zedgenizov,
  • Richard Unitt,
  • Catherine McCammon,
  • Alena Aslandukova,
  • Saiana Khandarkhaeva,
  • Timofey Fedotenko,
  • Konstantin Glazyrin,
  • Dimitrios Bessas,
  • Georgios Aprilis,
  • Alexandr I. Chumakov,
  • Hiroyuki Kagi,
  • Leonid Dubrovinsky

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35110-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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This article reports finding of a highly oxidised mineral in diamond inclusion derived from mantle transition zone or lower mantle, very reduced areas on our planet. Such oxidised material is likely linked to subduction of carbonates into this region.