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Conditions and formation mechanism of carbon phases in late quarternary geyzerites and travertines of Ol’khon area and Ol’khon Island (Baikal rift zone)

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Late Quaternary geyserite and travertine in Ol’khon Area and Ol’khon Island contain a recently discovered high-temperature association of hydrocarbon and carbonaceous phases, including highly crystalline graphite, α-carbyne, and bitumen, which were produced at temperatures no lower than 400°C. A carbon modification α-carbyne, which was previously found only among experimental products, was first identified in geyserite from the Ol’khon area. Nanometer-sized morphostructures and crystallites were detected on the surface of highly crystalline graphite from the geyserite and travertine. No such structures and crystallites have ever been found on graphite of magmatic, metamorphic, metasomatic, or pneumatolytic origin. The newly formed nanometer-sized morphostructures and crystallites should be regarded as typomorphic features of carbonaceous phases in high-temperature hydrothermal rocks. Graphite was likely produced in the geyserite and travertine by low-pressure polycondenssation of hydrocarbons, at free growth in open space from oversaturated solutions and/or a gas phase.

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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Danilova, T.G. Shumilova, J. Mayer, B.S. Danilov, 2016, published in Petrologiya, 2016, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 41–54.

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Danilova, Y.V., Shumilova, T.G., Mayer, J. et al. Conditions and formation mechanism of carbon phases in late quarternary geyzerites and travertines of Ol’khon area and Ol’khon Island (Baikal rift zone). Petrology 24, 35–48 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591116010033

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