Nitrogen speciation in upper mantle fluids and the origin of Earth's nitrogen-rich atmosphere
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Some of the upper mantle today lies within the stability field for ammonium.
“Even today, some of the upper mantle lies within the stability field for ammonium, so that increased oxidation of the early mantle and mantle wedge could have caused more subducted nitrogen to outgas as N2 (145).”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [145]
Low N/C in today's mid-ocean ridge source basalts suggests considerable N2 degassing once the upper mantle became oxidized.
“However, low N/C in today’s mid-ocean ridge source basalts (144) suggests considerable N2 degassing once the upper mantle became oxidized because then nitrogen became insoluble in magmas and upper mantle fluids (145).”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [145]
Once the upper mantle became oxidized, nitrogen became insoluble in magmas and upper mantle fluids.
“However, low N/C in today’s mid-ocean ridge source basalts (144) suggests considerable N2 degassing once the upper mantle became oxidized because then nitrogen became insoluble in magmas and upper mantle fluids (145).”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [145]
Increased oxidation of the early mantle and mantle wedge could have caused more subducted nitrogen to outgas as N2.
“Even today, some of the upper mantle lies within the stability field for ammonium, so that increased oxidation of the early mantle and mantle wedge could have caused more subducted nitrogen to outgas as N2 (145).”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [145]
N2 likely was outgassed and built up during the Archean eon and became the main atmospheric species besides CO2.
“N 2 likely has been outgassed and built up during the Archean eon (Mikhail and Sverjensky 2014; Som et al. 2016; Lammer et al. 2018; Lammer et al. 2019; St¨ ueken et al. 2020; Sproß et al. 2021), and became the main atmospheric species besides CO 2 .”
From The young Sun's XUV-activity as a constraint for lower CO2-limits in the Earth's Archean atmosphere (2021) · cites this paper as Mikhail and Sverjensky 2014
Cites
The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans
Holland, H. D. (2006) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1838 · Cited by 1,535 · see citing works
The Redox State of Earth's Mantle
Frost, D. J., & McCammon, C. A. (2008) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124322 · Cited by 1,134 · see citing works
The origins and concentrations of water, carbon, nitrogen and noble gases on Earth
Marty, B. (2012) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.040 · Cited by 1,012 · see citing works
Water and the Oxidation State of Subduction Zone Magmas
Kelley, K. A., & Cottrell, E. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1174156 · Cited by 896 · see citing works
The redox state of subduction zones: insights from arc-peridotites
Parkinson, I. J., & Arculus, R. (1999) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(99)00110-2 · Cited by 525 · see citing works
Mantle Oxidation State and Its Relationship to Tectonic Environment and Fluid Speciation
Wood, B. J., Bryndzia, L. T., & Johnson, K. E. (1990) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.248.4953.337 · Cited by 517 · see citing works
Abundance and Isotopic Composition of Gases in the Martian Atmosphere from the Curiosity Rover
Mahaffy, P. R., Webster, C. R., Atreya, S. K., Franz, H. B., Wong, M., Conrad, P. G., Harpold, D. N., Jones, J. J., Leshin, L. A., Manning, H. L. K., et al. (2013) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1237966 · Cited by 430 · see citing works
Sverjensky, D. A., Harrison, B., & Azzolini, D. (2014) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.12.019 · Cited by 305 · see citing works
Self-citationPan, D., Spanu, L., Harrison, B., Sverjensky, D. A., & Galli, G. (2013) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1221581110 · Cited by 250 · see citing works
Self-citationHydrous melting of the martian mantle produced both depleted and enriched shergottites
Mccubbin, F. M., Hauri, E. H., Elardo, S. M., et al. (2012) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g33242.1 · Cited by 235 · see citing works
An Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star
Quintana, E., Barclay, T., Raymond, S., Rowe, J., Bolmont, É., Caldwell, D., Howell, S., Kane, S., Huber, D., Crepp, J., et al. (2014) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1249403 · Cited by 232 · see citing works
Nitrogen Isotopic Composition and Density of the Archean Atmosphere
Marty, B., Zimmermann, L., Pujol, M., Burgess, R., & Philippot, P. (2013) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1240971 · Cited by 215 · see citing works
Heading down early on? Start of subduction on Earth
Turner, S., Rushmer, T., Reagan, M. K., & Moyen, J. (2014) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g34886.1 · Cited by 212 · see citing works
Subduction and Recycling of Nitrogen Along the Central American Margin
Fischer, T. P., Hilton, D. R., Zimmer, M. M., Shaw, A. M., Sharp, Z. D., & Walker, J. A. (2002) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1073995 · Cited by 208 · see citing works
Facq, S. P., Daniel, I. M., Montagnac, G., et al. (2014) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.01.030 · Cited by 159 · see citing works
Lécuyer, C. (1999) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(98)00267-2 · Cited by 156 · see citing works
Nitrogen solubility in molten metal and silicate at high pressure and temperature
Roskosz, M., Bouhifd, M. A., Jephcoat, A. P., Marty, B. M., & Mysen, B. O. (2013) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.07.007 · Cited by 145 · see citing works
Busigny, V., Cartigny, P., & Philippot, P. (2011) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.09.049 · Cited by 134 · see citing works
Nitrogen in the Silicate Earth: Speciation and Isotopic Behavior during Mineral-Fluid Interactions
Busigny, V., & Bebout, G. E. (2013) · Elements · doi:10.2113/gselements.9.5.353 · Cited by 130 · see citing works
Nitrogen speciation in mantle and crustal fluids
Li, Y., & Keppler, H. (2014) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.12.031 · Cited by 127 · see citing works
Nitrogen solubility in upper mantle minerals
Li, Y., Wiedenbeck, M., Shcheka, S. S., & Keppler, H. (2013) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.07.013 · Cited by 125 · see citing works
Ammonium-bearing clinopyroxene: A potential nitrogen reservoir in the Earth's mantle
Watenphul, A., Wunder, B., Wirth, R., & Heinrich, W. (2010) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.12.003 · Cited by 109 · see citing works
Basalts as Probes of Planetary Interior Redox State
Herd, C. D. K. (2008) · Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry · doi:10.2138/rmg.2008.68.19 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
Measurements of the Venus lower atmosphere composition: A comparison of results
Hoffman, J. H., Oyama, V. I., & von Zahn, U. (1980) · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · doi:10.1029/ja085ia13p07871 · Cited by 92 · see citing works
Nitrogen in peridotite xenoliths: Lithophile behavior and magmatic isotope fractionation
Yokochi, R., Marty, B. M., Chazot, G., & Burnard, P. G. (2009) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.05.054 · Cited by 73 · see citing works
Nitrogen: Highly Volatile yet Surprisingly Compatible
Bebout, G. E., Fogel, M. L., & Cartigny, P. (2013) · Elements · doi:10.2113/gselements.9.5.333 · Cited by 72 · see citing works
The origin of the terrestrial noble-gas signature
Shcheka, S., & Keppler, H. (2012) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature11506 · Cited by 67 · see citing works
Mysen, B. O., Tomita, T., Ohtani, E., & SUZUKI, A. S. (2014) · American Mineralogist · doi:10.2138/am.2014.4575 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
4.12 – The Origin of Noble Gases and Major Volatiles in the Terrestrial Planets
Porcelli, D. (2003) · Treatise on Geochemistry · doi:10.1016/b0-08-043751-6/04045-7 · Cited by 19 · see citing works
Ironing Out the Oxidation of Earth's Mantle
Hirschmann, M. M. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1176882 · Cited by 15 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Catling, D. C., & Zahnle, K. J. (2020) · Science Advances · doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax1420 · Cited by 568 · see citing works
Origins of building blocks of life: A review
Kitadai, N., & Maruyama, S. (2018) · Geoscience Frontiers · doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2017.07.007 · Cited by 464 · see citing works
Johnson, B., & Goldblatt, C. (2015) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.05.006 · Cited by 224 · see citing works
Earth's air pressure 2.7 billion years ago constrained to less than half of modern levels
Som, S. M., Buick, R., Hagadorn, J. W., Blake, T. S., Perreault, J. M., Harnmeijer, J. P., & Catling, D. C. (2016) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo2713 · Cited by 173 · see citing works
Mallik, A., Li, Y., & Wiedenbeck, M. (2018) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.045 · Cited by 85 · see citing works
Stüeken, E. E., Kipp, M. A., Koehler, M. C., Schwieterman, E. W., Johnson, B., & Buick, R. (2016) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2016.1537 · Cited by 73 · see citing works
Lammer, H., Sproß, L., Grenfell, J. L., Scherf, M., Fossati, L., Lendl, M., & Cubillos, P. E. (2019) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2018.1914 · Cited by 67 · see citing works
EarthN: A New Earth System Nitrogen Model
Johnson, B. W., & Goldblatt, C. (2018) · Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems · doi:10.1029/2017gc007392 · Cited by 51 · see citing works
The young Sun's XUV-activity as a constraint for lower CO2-limits in the Earth's Archean atmosphere
Johnstone, C. P., Lammer, H., Kislyakova, K. G., Scherf, M., & Güdel, M. (2021) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117197 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
Atmospheric nitrogen when life evolved on Earth
Gebauer, S., Grenfell, J. L., Lammer, H., de Vera, J.-P. P., Sproß, L., Airapetian, V. S., Sinnhuber, M., & Rauer, H. (2020) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2019.2212 · Cited by 17 · see citing works
- Authors
- Mikhail, S., & Sverjensky, D. A.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mikhail, Sami
- ORCID
- Mikhail, Sami
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2014-10-19
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 816-819
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W1965463279
- Cited by
- 185
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 5
- FWCI
- 11.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astro and Planetary Science
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geophysics › High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Keywords
- nitrogen speciation, mantle-derived fluids, nitrogen-rich atmosphere, atmospheric nitrogen, subduction zone, ammonium, volatile degassing, plate tectonics, Venus atmosphere, Mars atmosphere, noble gases, thermodynamic calculation, aqueous liquid
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review