Iron carbonates in the Earth’s lower mantle: reality or imagination?

Valerio Cerantola1,2, Catherine A McCammon2, Marco Merlini3, Elena Bykova4, Ilya Kupenko5, Leyla Ismailova6, Alexander I Chumakov5, Innokenty Kantor1, Leonid S Dubrovinsky7 and Clemens Prescher8, (1)ESRF European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France, (2)University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, (3)University of Milan, Department of Earth Sciences 'Ardito Desio', Milan, Italy, (4)DESY Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany, (5)Universitaet Muenster, Institute for Mineralogy, Muenster, Germany, (6)Russian Academy of Sciences, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia, (7)University of Bayreuth, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany, (8)University of Chicago, Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, Chicago, IL, United States