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Aqueous subduction-zone fluids contain CO2 and methane. New calculations indicate that these fluids also host a wide array of organic carbon species, in concentrations sufficient to influence the deep carbon cycle.

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Figure 1: Diamond within a rock matrix.

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  1. Jay J. Ague is in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8109, USA,

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Ague, J. Subduction goes organic. Nature Geosci 7, 860–861 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2301

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