V11A:
Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Biology of Serpentinization Processes on Earth and Other Planets Posters


Session ID#: 8394

Session Description:
This session will focus on the most recent discoveries of the complex hydration reactions of ultramafic rocks in which olivine and pyroxene are reacted to form rocks that are dominated by serpentine, brucite, talc, magnetite and carbonates and are associated with H2 and/or CH4 seeps. Serpentinization involves volume expansion, exothermic heat release, and crustal deformation, coupled with changes in fluid chemistry and seismic properties of the host rock. New insights into how serpentinization reactions proceed and importance of serpentinization as an energy source for microorganisms have been developed from studies on ophiolites and hydrothermal systems.

We invite investigations that concern different aspects of serpentinization such as physical, chemical or biological processes, petrology, fluid-rock processes, mechanics, kinetics of the reactions, volatile transfer (CO2, H2O, O2, SO2), or studies on carbon sequestration and abiotic generation of methane on natural, experimental and numerically modeled systems on Earth and planetary environments.

Primary Convener:  Aida Farough, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, KS, United States
Conveners:  Robert P Lowell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Jeffrey Alt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Chairs:  Aida Farough, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, KS, United States, Robert P Lowell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Jeffrey Alt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Aida Farough, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, KS, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
3035 Midocean ridge processes [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3042 Ophiolites [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
8413 Subduction zone processes [VOLCANOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Lukas Kohl1, Emily Cumming2, Alison Cox2, Shino Suzuki3, Liam Morrrissey2, Susan Q Lang4, Andreas Richter5, Kenneth H Nealson6 and Penny L Morrill7, (1)Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Earth Science, St John's, NF, Canada, (2)Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada, (3)JAXA, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, United States, (5)University of Vienna, Department of Microbiology & Ecosystem Science, Vienna, Austria, (6)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, (7)Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada
Dawn Cardace, University of Rhode Island, Geosciences, Narragansett, United States
Tsvetomila Mateeva1, George A Wolff2, Nick Kusznir2, John Wheeler3 and Gianreto Manatschal4, (1)University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom, (2)University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (3)University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom, (4)University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jennifer G Blank, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
Giuseppe Etiope, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy and Artur Ionescu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Mathilde Cannat, CNRS-Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France and Stéphane Rouméjon, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Harrison P Lisabeth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Wenlu Zhu, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Aida Farough, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, KS, United States and Robert P Lowell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Benjamin M Tutolo, University of Calgary, Department of Geoscience, Calgary, AB, Canada, Andrew J Luhmann, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States and William E Seyfried Jr, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Minneapolis, United States
Juerg Michael Matter1,2, Peter B Kelemen1 and Damon A H Teagle3, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Juan Carlos de Obeso, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Peter B Kelemen, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Pavithra Sekhar, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Robert P Lowell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Henglei Zhang, China unversity of Geosciences, Geophysics, Wuhan, China and Dhananjay Ravat, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States