Atmospheric sulfur is recycled to the crystalline continental crust during supercontinent formation

The long-term evolution of the sulfur budget in the lithosphere is poorly constrained. Here, using mass independent isotope fractionation as an indelible tracer, the authors track the pathway of sulfur from the Earth’s surface to punctuated episodes of granitoid magmatism during collisional orogenes...

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Main Authors: Crystal LaFlamme, Marco L. Fiorentini, Mark D. Lindsay, Thi Hao Bui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06691-3