Evidence for a dominantly reducing Archaean ambient mantle from two redox proxies, and low oxygen fugacity of deeply subducted oceanic crust

Abstract Oxygen fugacity (ƒO2) is an intensive variable implicated in a range of processes that have shaped the Earth system, but there is controversy on the timing and rate of oxidation of the uppermost convecting mantle to its present ƒO2 around the fayalite-magnetite-quartz oxygen buffer. Here, w...

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Main Authors: Sonja Aulbach, Alan B. Woodland, Richard A. Stern, Prokopiy Vasilyev, Larry M. Heaman, K. S. Viljoen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55743-1