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Under the Right Conditions, Subduction Zone ‘Factories’ May Manufacture Abiotic Hydrocarbons 25 September 2018 Feature

Subduction zones, where the edge of one tectonic plate slips beneath another, have earned the…

Did a Burst of Halogens Kick Off the End-Permian Extinction? 27 August 2018 Feature

About 250 million years ago, one of the largest known volcanic events in history flooded the area…

Biology Meets Subduction, Again: DCO Early Career Scientists Head Back to Central America 26 April 2018 Feature

From 3-20 April 2018, the Biology Meets Subduction team were back in the field to extend the study…

Earth’s Core-Mantle Boundary May Be Decorated in Marble and Diamonds 19 March 2018 Feature

A new study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters [1] finds that carbonates…

VIDEO: Biology Meets Subduction 20 December 2017 Feature

On 11 February 2017, 25 researchers from six nations met in San Jose, Costa Rica for a 12-day…

One of The Supercontinents Is Different from the Others (It’s Rodinia) 14 December 2017 Feature

Each supercontinent has its quirks, but one, called Rodinia, assembled from 1.3 to 0.9 billion…

The Folly of the 404: A Wikipedia Lesson 26 July 2017 Feature

While most 404 error pages simply displayed the message “Error 404. The page you were looking for…

The Shallow Carbon Cycle: Arc Volcanoes Recycle Carbon from Earth’s Crust 20 July 2017 Feature

A new study by Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge, UK), Co-chair of the Scientific Steering…

A New Source of Hydrocarbons in the Deep Carbon Cycle 12 June 2017 Feature

Due to its ubiquity on the surface, acetate could end up in the deep subsurface through subduction…

Deep Burial of Organic Carbon into the Mantle Enabled “Great Oxidation Event” 25 April 2017 Feature

The rise across GOE and the subsequent increases in Earth’s atmospheric oxygen enabled the…

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