Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Uncovering and quantifying the subduction zone sulfur cycle from the slab perspective

  • Ji-Lei Li,
  • Esther M. Schwarzenbach,
  • Timm John,
  • Jay J. Ague,
  • Fang Huang,
  • Jun Gao,
  • Reiner Klemd,
  • Martin J. Whitehouse,
  • Xin-Shui Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14110-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Sulfur is one of the key volatiles in Earth’s chemical cycles; however, sulfur speciation, isotopic composition, and flux during the subduction cycle remain unclear. Here, the authors provide direct constraints on subduction zone sulfur recycling from high-pressure rocks and explore implications for arc magmatism.