Reevaluating carbon fluxes in subduction zones, what goes down, mostly comes up

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 30, 2015, Pages E3997-E4006

  Kelemen, Peter B ^a   Manning, Craig E ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqueous geochemistry; Carbon cycle; Metasediment diapirs; Peridotite carbonation; Subduction

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM SILICATE; CARBON; CARBONIC ACID; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHRYSOTILE; DIAMOND; GRAPHITE; INERT GAS; MINERAL; SEA WATER; SERPENTINE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BASALT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON FLUX; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; HYDRATION; LITHOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SALINITY; SEA; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOLUBILITY; STEADY STATE; THICKNESS; VOLCANO; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84927763161     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1507889112     Document Type: Article

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