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SUBMITTER: Wetzel DT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3657818 | biostudies-other | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130408 20
Degassing of planetary interiors through surface volcanism plays an important role in the evolution of planetary bodies and atmospheres. On Earth, carbon dioxide and water are the primary volatile species in magmas. However, little is known about the speciation and degassing of carbon in magmas formed on other planets (i.e., Moon, Mars, Mercury), where the mantle oxidation state [oxygen fugacity (fO2)] is different from that of the Earth. Using experiments on a lunar basalt composition, we confi ...[more]