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Mineral evolution and Earth history

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Abstract

The field of mineral evolution-a merger of mineralogy and Earth history-coalesced in 2008 with the first of several global syntheses by Robert Hazen and coworkers in the American Mineralogist. They showed that the cumulative abundance of mineral species has a stepwise trend with first appearances tied to various transitions in Earth history such as the end of planetary accretion at ca. 4.55 Ga and the onset of bio-mediated mineralogy at ca. >2.5 Ga. A global age distribution is best established for zircon. Observed abundance of zircon fluctuates through more than an order of magnitude during successive supercontinent cycles. The pulse of the Earth is also recorded, albeit imperfectly, by the 87Sr/86Sr composition of marine biogenic calcite; the Sr-isotopic ratio of this mineral reflects the balance of inputs of primitive strontium at midocean ridges and evolved strontium that drains off the continents. A global mineral evolution database, currently in the works, will greatly facilitate the compilation and analysis of extant data and the expansion of research in mineralogy outside its traditional bounds and into more interdisciplinary realms.

Keywords: Mineral evolution; Earth history; detrital zircon geochronology
Received: 2014-6-11
Accepted: 2014-7-2
Published Online: 2015-1-10
Published in Print: 2015-1-1

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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  3. Mineral evolution and Earth history
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  5. The rapid expansion of environmental mineralogy in unconventional ways: Beyond the accepted definition of a mineral, the latest technology, and using nature as our guide
  6. Microelectronic junctions in arsenian pyrite due to impurity and mixed sulfide heterogeneity
  7. The structure of water-saturated carbonate melts
  8. In-situ measurements of fluorine and chlorine speciation and partitioning between melts and aqueous fluids in the Na2O-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O system
  9. High-pressure high-temperature transitions in MgCr2O4 and crystal structures of new Mg2Cr2O5 and post-spinel MgCr2O4 phases with implications for ultrahigh-pressure chromitites in ophiolites
  10. Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy and visible/near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of Fe-sulfate minerals
  11. Megacrystic zircon with planar fractures in miaskite-type nepheline pegmatites formed at high pressures in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, southern Alps, Switzerland)
  12. Tourmaline as a petrogenetic monitor of the origin and evolution of the Berry-Havey pegmatite (Maine, U.S.A.)
  13. Applications of Hirshfeld surfaces to mineralogy: An example of alumohydrocalcite, and the classification of the dundasite group minerals
  14. Optical absorption anisotropy of high-density, wide-gap, high-hardness SiO2 polymorphs seifertite, stishovite, and coesite
  15. The system Na2CO3-FeCO3 at 6 GPa and its relation to the system Na2CO3-FeCO3-MgCO3
  16. Chlorine-hydroxyl diffusion in pargasitic amphibole
  17. The use of cation-cation and anion-anion bonds to augment the bond-valence model
  18. AIM analysis and the form of the bond-valence equation
  19. Atomistic simulation on mixing thermodynamics of calcite-smithsonite solid solutions
  20. Combined geochemistry and geochronology constrains coupled subduction of oceanic and continental crust in the Huwan shear zone, central China
  21. Near-infrared investigation of folding sepiolite
  22. First-principles study of sulfur isotope fractionation in pyrite-type disulfides
  23. Tetrataenite in terrestrial rock
  24. Thermo-compression of pyrope-grossular garnet solid solutions: Non-linear compositional dependence
  25. Phase relationships in the system K2CO3-CaCO3 at 6 GPa and 900–1450 °C
  26. Trace-element partitioning between plagioclase, alkali feldspar, Ti-magnetite, biotite, apatite, and evolved potassic liquids from Campi Flegrei (Southern Italy)
  27. Synthetic and natural ammonium-bearing tourmaline
  28. Anhydrite stability and the effect of Ca on the behavior of sulfur in felsic magmas
  29. Nuragheite, Th(MoO4)2·H2O, The Second Natural Thorium Molybdate And Its Relationships To Ichnusaite And Synthetic Th(MoO4)2†
  30. Structural Effects On Incorporated Water In Carbonated Apatites
  31. New Constraints On Electron-Beam Induced Halogen Migration In Apatite
  32. Origin Of The Lunar Highlands Mg-Suite: An Integrated Petrology, Geochemistry, Chronology, And Remote Sensing Perspective
  33. An In Situ High-Pressure Nmr Study Of Sodium Coordination Environment Compressibility In Albite Glass
  34. Hydrothermal Synthesis And Crystal Structure Of Also4(Oh): A Titanite-Group Member
  35. New Mineral Names
  36. Book Review: Thermal Remote Sensing Of Active Volcanoes: A User’S Manual
https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2015-5101
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
Mineral evolution; Earth history; detrital zircon geochronology

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. The American Mineralogist at 100 years, and a mineralogy renaissance
  2. At the blurry edge of mineralogy
  3. Mineral evolution and Earth history
  4. Franciscan geologic history constrained by tectonic/olistostromal high-grade metamafic blocks in the iconic California Mesozoic-Cenozoic accretionary complex
  5. The rapid expansion of environmental mineralogy in unconventional ways: Beyond the accepted definition of a mineral, the latest technology, and using nature as our guide
  6. Microelectronic junctions in arsenian pyrite due to impurity and mixed sulfide heterogeneity
  7. The structure of water-saturated carbonate melts
  8. In-situ measurements of fluorine and chlorine speciation and partitioning between melts and aqueous fluids in the Na2O-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O system
  9. High-pressure high-temperature transitions in MgCr2O4 and crystal structures of new Mg2Cr2O5 and post-spinel MgCr2O4 phases with implications for ultrahigh-pressure chromitites in ophiolites
  10. Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy and visible/near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of Fe-sulfate minerals
  11. Megacrystic zircon with planar fractures in miaskite-type nepheline pegmatites formed at high pressures in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, southern Alps, Switzerland)
  12. Tourmaline as a petrogenetic monitor of the origin and evolution of the Berry-Havey pegmatite (Maine, U.S.A.)
  13. Applications of Hirshfeld surfaces to mineralogy: An example of alumohydrocalcite, and the classification of the dundasite group minerals
  14. Optical absorption anisotropy of high-density, wide-gap, high-hardness SiO2 polymorphs seifertite, stishovite, and coesite
  15. The system Na2CO3-FeCO3 at 6 GPa and its relation to the system Na2CO3-FeCO3-MgCO3
  16. Chlorine-hydroxyl diffusion in pargasitic amphibole
  17. The use of cation-cation and anion-anion bonds to augment the bond-valence model
  18. AIM analysis and the form of the bond-valence equation
  19. Atomistic simulation on mixing thermodynamics of calcite-smithsonite solid solutions
  20. Combined geochemistry and geochronology constrains coupled subduction of oceanic and continental crust in the Huwan shear zone, central China
  21. Near-infrared investigation of folding sepiolite
  22. First-principles study of sulfur isotope fractionation in pyrite-type disulfides
  23. Tetrataenite in terrestrial rock
  24. Thermo-compression of pyrope-grossular garnet solid solutions: Non-linear compositional dependence
  25. Phase relationships in the system K2CO3-CaCO3 at 6 GPa and 900–1450 °C
  26. Trace-element partitioning between plagioclase, alkali feldspar, Ti-magnetite, biotite, apatite, and evolved potassic liquids from Campi Flegrei (Southern Italy)
  27. Synthetic and natural ammonium-bearing tourmaline
  28. Anhydrite stability and the effect of Ca on the behavior of sulfur in felsic magmas
  29. Nuragheite, Th(MoO4)2·H2O, The Second Natural Thorium Molybdate And Its Relationships To Ichnusaite And Synthetic Th(MoO4)2†
  30. Structural Effects On Incorporated Water In Carbonated Apatites
  31. New Constraints On Electron-Beam Induced Halogen Migration In Apatite
  32. Origin Of The Lunar Highlands Mg-Suite: An Integrated Petrology, Geochemistry, Chronology, And Remote Sensing Perspective
  33. An In Situ High-Pressure Nmr Study Of Sodium Coordination Environment Compressibility In Albite Glass
  34. Hydrothermal Synthesis And Crystal Structure Of Also4(Oh): A Titanite-Group Member
  35. New Mineral Names
  36. Book Review: Thermal Remote Sensing Of Active Volcanoes: A User’S Manual
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