The geobiological nitrogen cycle: from microbes to the mantle

AL Zerkle, S Mikhail - Geobiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen forms an integral part of the main building blocks of life, including DNA, RNA, and
proteins. N2 is the dominant gas in Earth's atmosphere, and nitrogen is stored in all of …

[HTML][HTML] Earth's nitrogen and carbon cycles

R Halama, G Bebout - Space Science Reviews, 2021 - Springer
Understanding the Earth's geological nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) cycles is fundamental for
assessing the distribution of these volatiles between solid Earth (core, mantle and crust) …

Nitrogen isotope fractionations among gaseous and aqueous NH4+, NH3, N2, and metal-ammine complexes: Theoretical calculations and applications

L Li, Y He, Z Zhang, Y Liu - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Ammonium (NH 4+), ammonia (NH 3) and N 2 are key nitrogen species in
geological nitrogen recycling. NH 3 has also been proposed to play an important role in …

First-principles calculations of equilibrium nitrogen isotope fractionations among aqueous ammonium, silicate minerals and salts

Y Li, L Li, Z Wu - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Nitrogen isotopes are a robust tool to study geological nitrogen cycle between Earth's
reservoirs. However, the application of nitrogen isotope system to understanding geological …

Release of subducted sedimentary nitrogen throughout Earth's mantle

P Barry, D Hilton - Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 2016 - ora.ox.ac.uk
The dynamic process of subduction represents the principal means to introduce chemical
heterogeneities into Earth's interior. In the case of nitrogen (N)-atmosphere's most abundant …

EarthN: A new Earth system nitrogen model

BW Johnson, C Goldblatt - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere, oceans, crust, and mantle have important
ramifications for Earth's biologic and geologic history. Despite this importance, the history …

Nitrogen storage capacity of phengitic muscovite and K-cymrite under the conditions of hot subduction and ultra high pressure metamorphism

AG Sokol, IN Kupriyanov, DA Kotsuba… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen storage capacity and partitioning between main N hosts have been investigated in
N-bearing Al-rich natural pelite at 3.0–7.8 GPa, 825–1070° C and oxygen fugacity (fO 2) …

The relationship between mantle pH and the deep nitrogen cycle

S Mikhail, PH Barry, DA Sverjensky - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Nitrogen is distributed throughout all terrestrial geological reservoirs (ie, the crust, mantle,
and core), which are in a constant state of disequilibrium due to metabolic factors at Earth's …

Nitrogen fractionation in mica metapelite under hot subduction conditions: Implications for nitrogen ingassing to the mantle

IN Kupriyanov, AG Sokol, YV Seryotkin, AN Kruk… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nitrogen partitioning between its main hosts is investigated using partly devolatilized natural
quartz–muscovite–chlorite schist (mica schist), with NH 4+-rich muscovite, under conditions …

Partitioning of nitrogen during melting and recycling in subduction zones and the evolution of atmospheric nitrogen

MW Förster, SF Foley, O Alard, S Buhre - Chemical Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
The subduction of sediment connects the surface nitrogen cycle to that of the deep Earth. To
understand the evolution of nitrogen in the atmosphere, the behavior of nitrogen during the …