ReviewNature2022
Evolution of Earth's tectonic carbon conveyor belt.
Review in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
- Paleogeographic controls on Phanerozoic weathering rates and implications for climate regulation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Deep carbon cycling drives the splitting of the 520-km mantle discontinuity.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Generation of carbonated peridotite melts via biogenic sediment recycling in modern subduction zones.Science advances · 2026Article
- Carbonate burial regimes, the Meso-Cenozoic climate, and nannoplankton expansion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Ocean deoxygenation after the Sturtian Snowball.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Phanerozoic icehouse climates as the result of multiple solid-Earth cooling mechanisms.Science advances · 2025Article
- Subducted carbon weakens the forearc mantle wedge in a warm subduction zone.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Deep carbon recycling viewed from global plate tectonics.National science review · 2024Review
- The effects of local variations in conditions on carbon storage and release in the continental mantle.National science review · 2024Review
- The effects of bathymetry on the long-term carbon cycle and CCD.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Changes in orogenic style and surface environment recorded in Paleoproterozoic foreland successions.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Past changes in and present status of the coastal carbon cycle.Cambridge prisms. Coastal futures · 2023Review
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Concealed deep beneath the oceans is a carbon conveyor belt, propelled by plate tectonics. Our understanding of its modern functioning is underpinned by direct observations, but its variability through time has been poorly quantified. Here we reconstruct oceanic plate carbon reservoirs and track the fate of subducted carbon using thermodynamic modelling. In the Mesozoic era, 250 to 66 million years ago, plate tectonic processes had a pivotal role in driving climate change. Triassic-Jurassic period cooling correlates with a reduction in solid Earth outgassing, whereas Cretaceous period greenhouse conditions can be linked to a doubling in outgassing, driven by high-speed plate tectonics. The associated 'carbon subduction superflux' into the subcontinental mantle may have sparked North American diamond formation. In the Cenozoic era, continental collisions slowed seafloor spreading, reducing tectonically driven outgassing, while deep-sea carbonate sediments emerged as the Earth's largest carbon sink. Subduction and devolatilization of this reservoir beneath volcanic arcs led to a Cenozoic increase in carbon outgassing, surpassing mid-ocean ridges as the dominant source of carbon emissions 20 million years ago. An increase in solid Earth carbon emissions during Cenozoic cooling requires an increase in continental silicate weathering flux to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide, challenging previous views and providing boundary conditions for future carbon cycle models.
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