Abstract
Studies in mineral ecology exploit mineralogical databases to document diversity-distribution relationships of minerals—relationships that are integral to characterizing “Earth-like” planets. As carbon is the most crucial element to life on Earth, as well as one of the defining constituents of a planet’s near-surface mineralogy, we focus here on the diversity and distribution of carbon-bearing minerals. We applied a Large Number of Rare Events (LNRE) model to the 403 known minerals of carbon, using 82 922 mineral species/locality data tabulated in http://mindat.org (as of 1 January 2015). We find that all carbon-bearing minerals, as well as subsets containing C with O, H, Ca, or Na, conform to LNRE distributions.
Our model predicts that at least 548 C minerals exist on Earth today, indicating that at least 145 carbon-bearing mineral species have yet to be discovered. Furthermore, by analyzing subsets of the most common additional elements in carbon-bearing minerals (i.e., 378 C + O species; 282 C + H species; 133 C + Ca species; and 100 C + Na species), we predict that approximately 129 of these missing carbon minerals contain oxygen, 118 contain hydrogen, 52 contain calcium, and more than 60 contain sodium. The majority of these as yet undescribed minerals are predicted to be hydrous carbonates, many of which may have been overlooked because they are colorless, poorly crystalized, and/or water-soluble.
We tabulate 432 chemical formulas of plausible as yet undiscovered carbon minerals, some of which will be natural examples of known synthetic compounds, including carbides such as calcium carbide (CaC2), crystalline hydrocarbons such as pyrene (C16H10), and numerous oxalates, formates, anhydrous carbonates, and hydrous carbonates. Many other missing carbon minerals will be isomorphs of known carbon minerals, notably of the more than 100 different hydrous carbonate structures. Surveys of mineral localities with the greatest diversity of carbon minerals, coupled with information on varied C mineral occurrences, point to promising locations for the discovery of as yet undescribed minerals.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Jesse Ausubel, Edward Grew, Shaun Hardy, Margaret Hazen, John Hughes, Marcus Origlieri, Charles Prewitt, Craig Schiffries, Matthew Scott, and an anonymous reviewer for valuable comments and suggestions. This work was supported by the Deep Carbon Observatory and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with additional contributions from the W.M. Keck Foundation, an anonymous private foundation, and the Carnegie Institution for Science.
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- Special Collection: Advances in Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism: Contrasting P-T paths within the Barchi-Kol UHP terrain (Kokchetav Complex): Implications for subduction and exhumation of continental crust
- Research Article
- Special Collection: New Advances in Subduction Zone Magma Genesis: Experimental formation of pyroxenite veins by reactions between olivine and Si, Al, Ca, Na, and Cl-rich fluids at 800 °C and 800 MPa: Implications for fluid metasomatism in the mantle wedge
- Review
- Special Collection: Olivine: Rates and styles of planetary cooling on Earth, Moon, Mars, and Vesta, using new models for oxygen fugacity, ferric-ferrous ratios, olivine-liquid Fe-Mg exchange, and mantle potential temperature
- Research Article
- Special Collection: Rates and Depths of Magma Ascent on Earth: Amphibole thermometers and barometers for igneous systems and some implications for eruption mechanisms of felsic magmas at arc volcanoes
- Research Article
- Special Collection: Rates and Depths of Magma Ascent on Earth: Degassing of Hydrous Trachytic Campi Flegrei and Phonolitic Vesuvius Melts: Experimental Limitations and Chances to Study Homogeneous Bubble Nucleation
- Research Article
- Special Collection: Water in Nominally Hydrous and Anhydrous Minerals: Crystal/melt partitioning of water and other volatiles during the near-solidus melting of mantle peridotite: Comparisons with non-volatile incompatible elements and implications for the generation of intraplate magmatism
- Research Article
- Carbon mineral ecology: Predicting the undiscovered minerals of carbon
- Research Article
- Chromium, vanadium, and titanium valence systematics in Solar System pyroxene as a recorder of oxygen fugacity, planetary provenance, and processes
- Research Article
- Iron-titanium oxyhydroxides as water carriers in the Earth’s deep mantle
- Research Article
- Radiation damage in biotite mica by accelerated α-particles: A synchrotron microfocus X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy study
- Research Article
- Models for the estimation of Fe3+/Fetot ratio in terrestrial and extraterrestrial alkali- and iron-rich silicate glasses using Raman spectroscopy
- Research Article
- An advanced rotational rheometer system for extremely fluid liquids up to 1273 K and applications to alkali carbonate melts
- Research Article
- Experimental temperature cycling as a powerful tool to enlarge melt pools and crystals at magma storage conditions
- Research Article
- Exploring the potential of Raman spectroscopy for crystallochemical analyses of complex hydrous silicates: II. Tourmalines
- Research Article
- Crystal structure of a new compound, CuZnCl(OH)3, isostructural with botallackite
- Research Article
- Elastic wave velocities in polycrystalline Mg3Al2Si3O12-pyrope garnet to 24 GPa and 1300 K
- Research Article
- Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2015 to Nicholas J. Tosca
- Research Article
- Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2015
- Research Article
- Presentation of the 2015 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to Rodney C. Ewing
- Research Article
- Acceptance of the 2015 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
- Research Article
- Presentation of the Distinguished Public Service Award of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2015 to J. Alexander Speer
- Research Article
- Acceptance of the 2015 Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Public Service Award
- Research Article
- Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2016 to Patrick Cordier
- Research Article
- Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2016
- Book Review
- New Mineral Names*†
- Book Review
- Book Review