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        <title>Frontiers in Geochemistry | Solid Earth Geochemistry section | New and Recent Articles</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-05-11T21:42:17.94+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Poikilitic hornblende pyroxenite in the southern end of the Abukuma Mountains, Northeast Japan, as result of adakitic magmatism]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-12-10T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Akira Wakazono</author><author>Mayuko Fukuyama</author><author>Keita Itano</author><author>Yumiko Harigane</author><author>Akihiro Tamura</author><author>Tomoaki Morishita</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Amphibole plays a pivotal role in mediating the flux of volatiles and partial melting that ultimately contribute to arc magmatism. The influence of amphibole from the lower crust to the upper mantle remains unclear due to limited opportunities for observation. Amphibole-rich ultramafic rock characterized by large poikilitic hornblende grains with olivine and pyroxenes occurs in the Nishidohira metamorphic rocks in the southern Abukuma Mountains of Northeast Japan (we call poikilitic hornblende pyroxenite hereafter). Amphibole exhibit zoning in color and chemical composition: the dark core has higher TiO2 and Al2O3 contents than the light green rims. Dark-colored high-TiO2 pargasitic amphibole formed early from magmatic melts. Melt compositions calculated from the dark-colored amphibole core based on melt-mineral partitioning indicate that the poikilitic hornblende pyroxenite resulted from adakitic magmatic activity. Reactions between pre-existing ultramafic rock and adakitic melt are likely to form poikilitic hornblende pyroxenite when the melt/rock ratio is low, and hornblende gabbro when the ratio is high. The U-Pb zircon age of approximately 120 Ma for poikilitic hornblende pyroxenite and associated hornblende gabbro is interpreted as a magmatic age. In the Early Cretaceous tectonic framework of Northeast Japan, adakitic magmatism is attributed to the westward subduction of the Izanagi (or Kula) plate beneath the eastern margin of the Eurasian Plate.]]></description>
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        <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgeoc.2025.1660826</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[The landscape of the experimental orthopyroxene/melt partitioning database]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-11-07T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Madison X. Betts</author><author>Gokce K. Ustunisik</author><author>Roger L. Nielsen</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Quantitative modeling is a powerful tool that allows us to develop an understanding of identity and extent of igneous processes on Earth and other planetary bodies. Such models are built upon data from experiments that describe the major and trace element behavior among the phases in a system of interest. Previous work on the analysis of calibration datasets has been done for many of the mafic rock forming minerals such as plagioclase, clinopyroxene, amphibole, olivine, and garnet. What is missing is an evaluation of the sources of uncertainty in the trace element orthopyroxene/melt partitioning experiments. The goal of this investigation is to document the identity and magnitude of a number of sources of uncertainty that were observed in the experimental database for low-Ca pyroxene/melt trace element partitioning. These include multiphase analyses (e.g., mineral and glass analysis in the same analytical volume) as well as uncertainty with regards to the specific structural state of the low-Ca pyroxene in the experiments (e.g., is the mineral reported orthopyroxene or pigeonite?). Our findings confirm earlier work documenting the dependence of the orthopyroxene/melt partition coefficients for the high field strength and rare earth elements on the Ca content of pyroxene. However, the development of predictive expressions for trace element partitioning between orthopyroxene and melt is compromised by a number of database characteristics related to commonly applied analytical methods and phase determinations. Specifically, the average composition of the experimental orthopyroxene and liquids overlap, but is different for each element (e.g., the average composition of all experiments where Sm was determined is different but overlap with those where Zr was determined). Second, the reported analytical uncertainty is significantly higher for experiments where the trace element determinations were done by laser inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy compared to secondary ion mass spectroscopy - an observation attributable to the differences in analytical volume between two analytical techniques. Lastly, most experimental studies did not determine the specific low-Ca pyroxene present but rather used the calcium content alone to identify orthopyroxene vs. pigeonite which we showed as unreliable. Taken together, these database characteristics impact any regression analysis and result in an internal bias in the predicted behavior of trace elements. Our ability to “fix” the database is inhibited by the current convention of publishing experimental partitioning data as averages and not publishing individual analyses - making essentially impossible to quantitatively understand the magnitude and sources of error.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lithospheric origin of a diamond from the Rio Sorriso area, Mato Grosso State, Brazil]]></title>
        <pubdate>2025-08-15T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>A. Angellotti</author><author>G. Marras</author><author>M. Morana</author><author>S. Chariton</author><author>V. Stopponi</author><author>L. Medeghini</author><author>C. Romano</author><author>A. Correale</author><author>L. Bindi</author><author>F. V. Kaminsky</author><author>V. Stagno</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Diamonds are unique samples that enlarge our vision of the physical and chemical reactions occurring in Earth’s deep, inaccessible mantle. By investigating the minerals and fluids trapped within them, it is possible to ascertain the key conditions relevant to diamond formation, such as pressure, temperature, and oxygen fugacity. In this study, we investigated a diamond from the Rio Sorriso area, Juína (Brazil), a site known for the high abundance of sublithospheric diamonds discovered there. The diamond contained both colorless and greenish optically visible inclusions of Na–Cr-bearing diopside, high-Mg olivine, and enstatite. Thermobarometric estimates of the polished and entrapped inclusions suggest that the diamond likely formed at pressures between 4 and 5 GPa and temperatures of 1,050 °C–1,150  °C. Major and trace elements data from one polished clinopyroxene provide evidence of interaction between the local peridotite and an oxidized Na-rich carbonated melt—a generally proposed growth medium from which diamonds may have crystallized. Our study thus demonstrates that diamonds from underneath the Amazonian craton did not originate solely at lower mantle depths but also within a metasomatized lithospheric mantle.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Corrigendum: A laser–laser method for carbonate C and O isotope measurement, metrology assessment, and stratigraphic applications]]></title>
        <pubdate>2024-07-01T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Correction</category>
        <author>Alban Petitjean</author><author>Christophe Thomazo</author><author>Olivier Musset</author><author>Ivan Jovovic</author><author>Pierre Sansjofre</author><author>Kalle Kirsimäe</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[High-resolution decadal-scale eruption age dating of young oceanic basalts at an active hydrothermal vent site]]></title>
        <pubdate>2024-06-20T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Kenneth W. W. Sims</author><author>Lisa B. Kant</author><author>Gregory J. Stark</author><author>Mark K. Reagan</author><author>Jeff J. Standish</author><author>Charles H. Langmuir</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Here we report (210Pb/226Ra), (226Ra/230Th), (230Th/238U) and (234U/238U) disequilibria for eleven lavas from the ABE vent site in the Lau Basin. Most ABE lavas have (210Pb/226Ra) > 1 and (226Ra/230Th) > 3. These results indicate that most of these lavas erupted within the past 100 years. Model ages calculated assuming initial (210Pb/226Pb) = 1.8–2.0 further constrain the timing of eruption, suggesting that more than half of the lavas erupted within the past 60 years. When combined with complementary data (side-scan sonar, lava flow morphology, tectonic mapping), this high-resolution record provides fundamental time constraints for interdisciplinary studies examining oceanic crustal construction and development of the hydrothermal system in the ABE vent field. Notably the youngest samples cluster around the active vent sites indicating that the ABE vent site’s location is a direct consequence of this concentrated young volcanism. This study is the first high resolution U-series study of a seafloor vent site and demonstrates the potential of using (210Pb/226Ra) for the determination of lava ages for young submarine lavas in spreading environments with active hydrothermal venting. As such these (210Pb/226Ra) measurements hold the promise for addressing in far greater detail the connections between spreading ridge eruptive and hydrothermal activity on the decadal to century time scales.]]></description>
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        <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgeoc.2023.1334490</guid>
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        <title><![CDATA[A laser–laser method for carbonate C and O isotope measurement, metrology assessment, and stratigraphic applications]]></title>
        <pubdate>2024-01-12T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Methods</category>
        <author>Alban Petitjean</author><author>Christophe Thomazo</author><author>Olivier Musset</author><author>Ivan Jovovic</author><author>Pierre Sansjofre</author><author>Kalle Kirsimäe</author>
        <description><![CDATA[The stable isotopic compositions of carbon and oxygen (δ13Ccarb and δ18Ocarb) measured from carbonates are widely used in geology, notably to reconstruct paleotemperatures and the secular evolution of the biogeochemical carbon cycle, to characterize limestone sediment diagenesis, and to provide chemostratigraphy records. The standard technique used since the mid-20th century to measure C and O isotopic ratios is based on a wet chemical acid digestion protocol in order to evolve CO2 from carbonates—the latter being analyzed by mass spectrometry and, more recently, infrared spectroscopy. A newly developed laser-based method aims to circumvent this chemical preparation step by producing CO2 via an instant and spatially resolved calcination reaction. We describe an evolution of the laser calcination benchtop system previously described and used as a proof of concept toward a portable system, and we present the efficiency of this tool for performing carbon and oxygen isotope measurements from carbonate matrixes following standard evaluation metrology protocol. This metrological study explores the following: i) the use of internal standards; ii) inter-calibration with the traditional acid chemical preparation method; iii) analysis of the uncertainties of using GUM and ANOVA. Using 15 different types of carbonate minerals encompassing a range of isotopic VPDB compositions between −18.6‰ and +16.06‰ and between −14.80‰ and −1.72‰ for δ13Ccarb and δ18Ocarb, we show that isotopic cross-calibration is verified for both carbon and oxygen, respectively, and we demonstrate that the uncertainties (1σ) of the δ13Ccarb and δ18Ocarb measurements of laser–laser isotopic analysis are within 0.41‰ and 0.68‰, respectively. The advantages of this method in saving time and spatially resolved and automated analysis in situ are demonstrated by high-resolution chemostratigraphic analysis of a laminated lacustrine travertine sample.]]></description>
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