[HTML][HTML] Subducted carbonates not required: Deep mantle melting explains stable Ca isotopes in kimberlite magmas

MA Antonelli, A Giuliani, Z Wang, M Wang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Ca isotope geochemistry has great potential for improving our understanding of magmatic
systems and for tracing the deep Earth carbon cycle. There are still many open questions …

Granite petrogenesis and the δ44Ca of continental crust

MA Antonelli, C Yakymchuk, EA Schauble… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Stable Ca isotopes are an increasingly useful tool for understanding the sources and
processes leading to the formation of magmatic rocks, yet Ca isotope fractionation during …

Calcium isotope constraints on OIB and MORB petrogenesis: The importance of melt mixing

ZT Eriksen, SB Jacobsen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Lithological and isotopic heterogeneity in the mantle archive the mantle's melting history and
fingerprint crustal recycling processes coupling the deep Earth with the terrestrial biosphere …

Light calcium isotope anomaly observed in continental basaltic lavas: A mixed signal of recycled carbonate and fractionation during melting

Y Wang, X Meng, Y He, J Huang, WN Lu, Q Shi, S Ke… - Lithos, 2023 - Elsevier
We present high-precision Ca isotopic data for 21 Cenozoic basaltic lavas from eastern
China to evaluate the potential of Ca isotopes as a tool to trace the recycling of surface …

The potential of Ca isotopes to trace subducted marine carbonates in deep mantle

H Zhu, R Liao, L Du, Z Zhang - Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2024 - Springer
Marine carbonates, the major carrier of carbon upon the upper crust, can be subducted into
the Earth's interior along with oceanic crust, and then returned to the surface through …

Calcium isotope evidence for early Archaean carbonates and subduction of oceanic crust

MA Antonelli, J Kendrick, C Yakymchuk… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Continents are unique to Earth and played a role in coevolution of the atmosphere,
hydrosphere, and biosphere. Debate exists, however, regarding continent formation and the …

Extensive crystal fractionation of high-silica magmas revealed by K isotopes

ZZ Wang, FZ Teng, FY Wu, ZC Liu, XC Liu, SA Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Fractional crystallization plays a critical role in generating the differentiated continental crust
on Earth. However, whether efficient crystal-melt separation can occur in viscous felsic …

Global trends in novel stable isotopes in basalts: Theory and observations

CR Soderman, O Shorttle, S Matthews… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
The geochemistry of global mantle melts suggests that both mid-ocean ridge basalts
(MORB) and ocean island basalts (OIB) sample lithological and temperature heterogeneities …

Calcium isotopes in high-temperature terrestrial processes

MA Antonelli, JI Simon - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
This chapter explores the growing body of stable and radiogenic Ca isotope measurements
in high temperature terrestrial materials and covers the emerging applications for Ca isotope …

Ca-isotopes as a robust tracer of magmatic differentiation

H Fu, SB Jacobsen, BT Larsen, ZT Eriksen - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The large mass difference (∼ 10%) between the two most abundant isotopes of calcium, 40
Ca and 44 Ca, gives Ca great potential in tracking mass-dependent fractionation during …