Advances in Serpentinization
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2024 | Viewed by 1299
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water-rock reactions; ultramafic rock systems; mineralogy; biogeochemistry; astrobiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Serpentinization occurs essentially and ubiquitously in ultramafic systems under sufficient geochemical conditions. This water–rock reaction generates complex mineral records of alteration with great potential to inform petrological and geochemical evolution through time. The implications for sustaining a deep, potentially polyextreme biosphere are significant. We invite submissions ranging from mineralogical interpretations in serpentinization-influenced settings, biogeochemical data sets collected from diverse ultramafic-hosted systems, and experimental and modeling results for related questions.
Dr. Dawn Cardace
Dr. D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- serpentinization
- geochemistry
- mineralogy
- petrology
- water–rock interactions
- habitability
- gas flux