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ArticleScientific reports2026

Active conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide to methane in peridotites of the Samail Ophiolite, Oman.

Daniel B Nothaft, Alexis S Templeton, Peter B Kelemen, Eric S Boyd, Juerg M Matter

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Article in Scientific reports, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Daniel B NothaftDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. daniel.nothaft@colorado.edu.
Alexis S TempletonDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. alexis.templeton@colorado.edu.
Peter B KelemenLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA.
Eric S BoydDepartment of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
Juerg M MatterNational Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton, UK.

Funding

NASA NNA15BB02ANational Science Foundation EAR-1516300Sloan Foundation-Deep Carbon Observatory 2014-3-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methane (CH [Formula: see text]) is common in fluids sourced from low-temperature hydrating (serpentinizing) peridotites, but the carbon sources, rates, and mechanisms of CH [Formula: see text] formation are uncertain. In CH [Formula: see text] dissolved in groundwaters pumped from four wells of up to 400 m depth in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman, we observed [Formula: see text] C contents ranging from radiocarbon-dead to [Formula: see text] fraction modern. Chemical and isotopic analyses of groundwaters and hydrocarbon gases align with microbiological data indicating that methanogens inhabiting H [Formula: see text]-rich [Formula: see text]), [Formula: see text] fluids produce the [Formula: see text] C-rich CH [Formula: see text]. This "young" microbial CH [Formula: see text] constitutes a portion of the light hydrocarbons dissolved in the subsurface fluids, which also contain a distinct pool of relatively

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PMCPMC12855872

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