Fe-XANES analyses of Reykjanes Ridge basalts: Implications for oceanic crust's role in the solid Earth oxygen cycle

• Main Authors: Shorttle, O, Moussallam, Y, Hartley, ME, Maclennan, J, Edmonds, M, Murton, BJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2015
• Subjects: mantle fO(2); XANES; oxygen; mantle heterogeneity; pyroxenite; Reykjanes; Iceland
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/248945

The cycling of material from Earth's surface environment into its interior can couple mantle oxidation state to the evolution of the oceans and atmosphere. A major uncertainty in this exchange is whether altered oceanic crust entering subduction zones can carry the oxidised signal it inherits d...