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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07385-6
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- PNRA [PdR 2016_00245]
- Preistoria Attuale Foundation
- Deep Energy community of the Deep Carbon Observatory - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- deepOASES ANR project [ANR-14-CE01-0008-01]
- French CNRS (Mission pour l'Interdisciplinarite)
- Italian PRIN [2015C5LN35]
- Marie Curie Cofund Program at the University of Liege
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Thermodynamic modeling has recently suggested that condensed carbonaceous matter should be the dominant product of abiotic organic synthesis during serpentinization, although it has not yet been described in natural serpentinites. Here we report evidence for three distinct types of abiotic condensed carbonaceous matter in paragenetic equilibrium with low-temperature mineralogical assemblages hosted by magma-impregnated, mantle-derived, serpentinites of the Ligurian Tethyan ophiolite. The first type coats hydroandraditic garnets in bastitized pyroxenes and bears mainly aliphatic chains. The second type forms small aggregates (similar to 2 mu m) associated with the alteration rims of spinel and plagioclase. The third type appears as large aggregates (similar to 100-200 mu m), bearing aromatic carbon and short aliphatic chains associated with saponite and hematite assemblage after plagioclase. These assemblages result from successive alteration at decreasing temperature and increasing oxygen fugacity. They affect a hybrid mafic-ultramafic paragenesis commonly occurring in the lower oceanic crust, pointing to ubiquity of the highlighted process during serpentinization.
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