Deep Serpentinization, H2, and high-pressure abiotic CH4

Project Information

DeepSeep

Grant agreement ID: 864045

DOI

10.3030/864045

EC signature date 27 February 2020

Start date 1 June 2021

End date 31 May 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 474 368,00

EU contribution

€ 2 474 368,00

Coordinated by

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Italy

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Publications

Book chapters (1)

Forms and fluxes of carbon: Surface to deep

Author(s): Alberto Vitale Brovarone, Kevin Wong, Donato Giovannelli, Benoit de Pins, Fabrice Gaillard, Malcolm Massuyeau, Fabrizio Nestola, Martha Giovanna Pamato, Isabelle Daniel
Published in: Treatise on Geochemistry, 2025, Page(s) 647-698
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-99762-1.00142-x

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Protocols for bulk off-line fluid inclusion extraction for the analysis of δ13C-CH4 and δ13C-CO2 using a cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) analyser

Author(s): Orlando Sébastien Olivieri, Valentina Marassi, Sonia Casolari, Olivier Sissman, Isabelle Daniel, Jens Fiebig, Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2024.1438382

Coupled surface to deep Earth processes: Perspectives from TOPO-EUROPE with an emphasis on climate- and energy-related societal challenges

Author(s): Cloetingh, Sierd; Sternai, Pietro; Koptev, Alexander; Ehlers, Todd A.; Gerya, Taras; Kovács, István; Oerlemans, Johannes; Beekman, Fred; Lavallée, Yan; Dingwell, Donald; Békési, Eszter; Porkolàb, Kristóf; Tesauro, Magdala; Lavecchia, Alessio; Botsyun, Svetlana; Muller, Veleda; Roure, François; Serpelloni, Enrico; Matenco, Liviu; Castelltort, Sébastien; et al.
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, 226, Issue 226, 2023, Page(s) 104140, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000614036

AnExperimentalStudyonKinetics-ControlledCa-CarbonateAqueousReductionintoCH4(1and2GPa,550◦C):ImplicationsforCMobilityinSubductionZones

Author(s): Peng, Weigang; Tumiati, Simone; Zhang, Lifei; Tiraboschi, Carla; Vitale Brovarone, Alberto; Toffolo, Luca; Poli, Stefano
Published in: The Journal of Petrology, 2022, ISSN 1460-2415
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7499310

Complexity of graphite formation in response to metamorphic methane generation and transformation in an orogenic ultramafic body

Author(s): Antoine Boutier; Isabelle Martinez; Olivier Sissmann; Samuele Agostini; Isabelle Daniel; Mark Van Baalen; Sara Mana; Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Issue 364, 2024, Page(s) 166-183, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.10.028

Methane-hydrogen-rich fluid migration may trigger seismic failure in subduction zones at forearc depths

Author(s): Francesco Giuntoli, Luca Menegon, Guillaume Siron, Flavio Cognigni, Hugues Leroux, Roberto Compagnoni, Marco Rossi & Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Nature Communications, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44641-w

Cold-subduction biogeodynamics boosts deep energy delivery to the forearc

Author(s): Veronica Peverelli, Orlando Sébastien Olivieri, Tatsuki Tsujimori, Donato Giovannelli, Guanghai Shi, Enrico Cannaò, Francesca Piccoli, Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Issue 388, 2024, Page(s) 195-207, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2024.10.004

Behaviour of fluid-mobile elements across a high-pressure serpentinization front (Monte Maggiore unit, Alpine Corsica)

Author(s): Francesco Ressico, Enrico Cannaò, Orlando Sébastien Olivieri, Zeudia Pastore, Veronica Peverelli, Nadia Malaspina, Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Chemical Geology, 2024, ISSN 0009-2541
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122228

Reaction path model of the formation of abiotic immiscible hydrocarbon fluids in subducted carbonated serpentinites, Lanzo Massif (Western Italian Alps)

Author(s): Jingyi Huang, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, Isabelle Daniel, Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Lithos, Issue 468-469, 2025, Page(s) 107498, ISSN 0024-4937
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107498

Thermotopes-COH—A software for carbon isotope modeling and speciation of COH fluids

Author(s): Antoine Boutier, Isabelle Martinez, Isabelle Daniel, Simone Tumiati, Guillaume Siron, Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Computers & Geosciences, 2024, ISSN 0098-3004
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2024.105533

Geothermometric constraints on the thermal architecture, metamorphism, and exhumation of the Northern Range, Trinidad

Author(s): Ivano Gennaro, John Weber, Alberto Vitale Brovarone, Jeanette Arkle, Xu Chu
Published in: Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2022, ISSN 0263-4929
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jmg.12697

In-situ abiogenic methane synthesis from diamond and graphite under geologically relevant conditions

Author(s): Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Alberto Vitale Brovarone, Mary-Ellen Donnelly, Mengnan Wang, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Ross Howie & Eugene Gregoryanz
Published in: Nature Communications, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26664-3

Subducted organic matter buffered by marine carbonate rules the carbon isotopic signature of arc emissions

Author(s): Tumiati, Simone; Recchia, S; Remusat, Laurent; Tiraboschi, Carla; Sverjensky, D.A.; Manning, Craig; Vitale Brovarone, Alberto
Published in: Nature Communications, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30421-5

Tracking molecular hydrogen migration along a subduction shear zone

Author(s): Ritabrata Dobe, Francesco Giuntoli, Orlando Sèbastien Olivieri, Guillaume Siron, Giulio Viola, Luca Menegon, Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Geological Society of America Bulletin, Issue 137, 2025, Page(s) 5241-5264, ISSN 0016-7606
Publisher: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/b38007.1

Decoupling of High‐Pressure H ₂ Production From Serpentinization and Magnetite in Subduction Zones

Author(s): G. Siron, M. Blanchard, J. Aufort, S. E. Williams, A. Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Issue 130, 2025, ISSN 2169-9313
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024jb030567

Dating fluid infiltration and deformation in the subducted ultramafic oceanic lithosphere by perovskite geochronology

Author(s): Piccoli, F., Rubatto, D., Ovtcharova, M., Hermann, J., Guillong, M., Vitale Brovarone, A.
Published in: Chemical Geology, 2022, ISSN 1872-6836
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121205

Ti-Bearing Minerals: from the Ocean Floor to Subduction and Back

Author(s): Inês Pereira, Emilie Bruand, Christian Nicollet, Kenneth T Koga, Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Journal of Petrology, 2023, ISSN 0022-3530
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egad041

Global Hydrogen Production During High-Pressure Serpentinization of Subducting Slabs

Author(s): A. S. Merdith, I. Daniel, D. Sverjensky, M. Andreani, B. Mather, S. Williams, A. Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Issue 24, 2023, Page(s) e2023GC010947, ISSN 1525-2027
Publisher: Geochemical Society
DOI: 10.1029/2023gc010947

The saline flavor of deep continental energy

Author(s): Alberto Vitale Brovarone
Published in: Science Bulletin, 2025, ISSN 2095-9273
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2025.12.030

Lawsonite and Garnet Oxygen Isotope Record of Fluid‐Rock Interaction During Subduction

Author(s): Patricia Kang; Laure A. J. Martin; Alberto Vitale Brovarone; Donna L. Whitney
Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2024, ISSN 1525-2027
Publisher: Geochemical Society
DOI: 10.1029/2023gc011389