There has been considerable recent interest in the stabilities of carbonate minerals within the Earth. Calcite is the dominant C-bearing phase in the Earth’s crust, and acts as a buffer for the long-term cycling of CO2 between the atmosphere, oceans and the solid Earth (Berner 1994; Bickle 1996). It has been shown that aragonite and dolomite (Kraft et al. 1991) or calcite (Biellman et al. 1992) are stable at pressures of 30 GPa and temperatures of the order of 2000 K. The controls on the stabilities of the carbonates are, of course,...
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