Geochemie, Mineralogie, Petrologie
Recent Submissions
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Particle‐Phase Uptake and Chemistry of Highly Oxygenated Organic Molecules (HOMs) From α‐Pinene OH Oxidation
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Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) forms a major part of the tropospheric submicron particle mass. Still, the exact formation mechanisms of SOA have remained elusive. It is now admitted that highly oxygenated organic molecules ... -
Spatial and temporal dynamics of water isotopes in the riverine‐marine mixing zone along the German Baltic Sea coast
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River estuaries are characterized by mixing processes between freshwater discharge and marine water masses. Since the first are depleted in heavier stable isotopes compared with the marine realm, estuaries often show a ... -
Incomplete Crack Sealing Causes Localization of Fracturing in Hydrothermal Quartz Veins
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Cyclic microfracturing and epitaxial crystal growth have long been recognized in crack‐seal veins, but an understanding of a single crack‐seal cycle is still missing. Here we present a phase‐field model that includes both ... -
Clay fraction properties and grassland management imprint on soil organic matter composition and stability at molecular level
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The dynamics of soil carbon in grassland are partly determined by soil organic matter (SOM) composition. However, it remains unclear which role grassland management plays in the interplay between SOM composition and carbon ... -
High‐resolution XEOL spectroscopy setup at the X‐ray absorption spectroscopy beamline P65 of PETRA III
(Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2022-08-11)A newly designed setup to perform steady‐state X‐ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL) spectroscopy and simultaneous XEOL and X‐ray absorption spectroscopy characterization at beamline P65 of PETRA III is described. The ... -
Domain Auto Finder (DAFi) program: the analysis of single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction data from polycrystalline samples
(Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2022-09-29)This paper presents the Domain Auto Finder (DAFi) program and its application to the analysis of single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction (SC‐XRD) data from multiphase mixtures of microcrystalline solids and powders. Superposition ... -
Experimentally Induced Thermal Fatigue on Lunar and Eucrite Meteorites—Influence of the Mineralogy on Rock Breakdown
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Thermal fatigue has been proven to be of fundamental importance for the nature and evolution of surfaces of airless bodies in the solar system. It is a rock erosive process acting in conjunction with meteoroid bombardment. ... -
Dynamics of Greenhouse Gases (CH4 and CO2) in Meromictic Lake Burgsee, Germany
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Extraordinary amounts of greenhouse gases can be stored within the monimolimnion of meromictic lakes, that is, in the water body which is excluded from mixing events. Lake Burgsee (Thuringia, Germany) is a shallow (depth ... -
X‐ray diffraction with micrometre spatial resolution for highly absorbing samples
(Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2022-10-05)X‐ray diffraction with high spatial resolution is commonly used to characterize (poly)crystalline samples with, for example, respect to local strain, residual stress, grain boundaries and texture. However, the investigation ... -
Laboratory Assessment of the Impact of Chemical Oxidation, Mineral Dissolution, and Heating on the Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Fossil‐Bound Organic Matter
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Fossil‐bound organic material holds great potential for the reconstruction of past changes in nitrogen (N) cycling. Here, with a series of laboratory experiments, we assess the potential effect of oxidative degradation, ... -
Sediment Release in the Benguela Upwelling System Dominates Trace Metal Input to the Shelf and Eastern South Atlantic Ocean
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Upwelling of subsurface waters injects macronutrients (fixed N, P, and Si) and micronutrient trace metals (TMs) into surface waters supporting elevated primary production in Eastern Boundary Upwelling Regions. The eastern ... -
Non‐exchangeable stable hydrogen isotope ratios in clay minerals and soil clay fractions: A method test
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Stable hydrogen isotope ratios (δ2H values) in structural hydroxyl groups of pedogenic clay minerals are inherited from the surrounding water at the time of their formation. Only non‐exchangeable H preserves the environmental ... -
Seamless Integration of the Coastal Ocean in Global Marine Carbon Cycle Modeling
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We present the first global ocean‐biogeochemistry model that uses a telescoping high resolution for an improved representation of coastal carbon dynamics: ICON‐Coast. Based on the unstructured triangular grid topology of ... -
Phase Stability of Al‐Bearing Dense Hydrous Magnesium Silicates at Topmost Lower Mantle Conditions: Implication for Water Transport in the Mantle
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In this study, we investigated the phase stability of Al‐free and Al‐bearing superhydrous phase B (shy‐B) up to 55 GPa and 2500 K. In comparison with Al‐free shy‐B, the incorporation of 11.7 wt.% Al2O3 in shy‐B expands the ... -
Digitization of imaging plates from Guinier powder X‐ray diffraction cameras
(Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2022-08-24)A Guinier camera equipped with an imaging plate is used to investigate and eliminate the sources of instrumental errors affecting the quality of the obtained scanned Guinier data. A program with a graphical user interface ... -
Identifying Dominant Processes in Time and Space: Time‐Varying Spatial Sensitivity Analysis for a Grid‐Based Nitrate Model
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Distributed models have been increasingly applied at finer spatiotemporal resolution. However, most diagnostic analyses aggregate performance measures in space or time, which might bias subsequent inferences. Accordingly, ... -
Developing a Laser Induced Liquid Beam Ion Desorption Spectral Database as Reference for Spaceborne Mass Spectrometers
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Spaceborne impact ionization mass spectrometers, such as the Cosmic Dust Analyzer on board the past Cassini spacecraft or the SUrface Dust Analyzer being built for NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission, are of crucial ... -
Multi‐episodic formation of baddeleyite and zircon in polymetamorphic anorthosite and rutile‐bearing ilmenitite from the Chiapas Massif Complex, Mexico
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Massif‐type anorthosite and comagmatic associations of rutile‐bearing ilmenitite (RBI) and oxide‐apatite‐rich amphibolite (OARA) from the Chiapas Massif Complex (CMC) in southeastern Mexico display a protracted billion‐year ... -
Curie Temperatures and Emplacement Conditions of Pyroclastic Deposits From Popocatépetl Volcano, Mexico
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Most pyroclastic deposits of Popocatépetl volcano were emplaced at high temperatures and have similar mafic to more evolved compositions, suggesting a long‐lived, interconnected magma environment. We performed a magnetic ... -
Single‐Crystal Elasticity of Antigorite at High Pressures and Seismic Detection of Serpentinized Slabs
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The subduction of serpentinized slabs is the dominant process to transport “water” into Earth's mantle, and plays a pivotal role for subduction dynamics. Antigorite, the most abundant serpentine mineral in subduction ... -
HTD2: a single‐crystal X‐ray diffractometer for combined high‐pressure/low‐temperature experiments at laboratory scale
(Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2022-09-29)High‐pressure (HP) X‐ray diffraction experiments at low temperature (LT) require dedicated instruments as well as non‐standard sample environments and measuring strategies. This is especially true when helium cryogenic ... -
Chemical Geodynamics Insights From a Machine Learning Approach
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The radiogenic isotope heterogeneity of oceanic basalts is often assessed using 2D isotope ratio diagrams. But because the underlying data are at least six dimensional (87Sr/86Sr, 143Nd/144Nd, 176Hf/177Hf, and 208,207,20 ... -
Site dependence of the magnetocaloric effect in Mn5−xFexSi3
(Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2022-09-06)The nuclear and magnetic structures of Mn3Fe2Si3 are investigated in the temperature range from 20 to 300 K. The magnetic properties of Mn3Fe2Si3 were measured on a single crystal. The compound undergoes a paramagnetic to ... -
A New Method for Determining Fluid Flux at High Pressures Applied to the Dehydration of Serpentinites
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A new method to determine fluid flux at high pressures and temperatures has been developed and used to study serpentinites at subduction zone conditions. Drill cores of a natural antigorite‐serpentinite with a strong ... -
Denitrification‐Driven Transcription and Enzyme Production at the River‐Groundwater Interface: Insights From Reactive‐Transport Modeling
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Molecular‐biological data and omics tools have increasingly been used to characterize microorganisms responsible for the turnover of reactive compounds in the environment, such as reactive‐nitrogen species in groundwater. ...
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