Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Multi-scale magnetic mapping of serpentinite carbonation

  • Masako Tominaga,
  • Andreas Beinlich,
  • Eduardo A. Lima,
  • Maurice A. Tivey,
  • Brian A. Hampton,
  • Benjamin Weiss,
  • Yumiko Harigane

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01610-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Peridotite carbonation plays an important role in the carbon cycle. Here, the authors present a geophysical characterization of serpentinite carbonation from km to mm scale and confirm that the abundance of magnetic minerals provides a strong correlation with the overall carbonation reaction process.