Research and publications

• Scientific publications
  42 publications

  A long section of serpentinized depleted mantle peridotite
  Peter Blum, Johan Lissenberg, Andrew McCaig, Susan Q. Lang, Natsue Abe, William Brazelton, Rémi Coltat, Jeremy Deans, Kristin Dickerson, Marguerite Godard, Barbara E. John, Frieder Klein, Rebecca Kuehn, Kuan-Yu Lin, Haiyang Liu, Ethan Lopes, Toshio Nozaka, Andrew J Parsons, Vamdev Pathak, Mark Reagan, Jordyn Robare, Ivan Savov, Esther Schwarzenbach, Olivier Sissmann, Gordon Southam, Fengping Wang, Charles Wheat, Lesley Anderson, Sarah Treadwell, Science (2024) | Journal article

  Mobilization of isotopically heavy sulfur during serpentinite subduction
  Esther M. Schwarzenbach and Besim Dragovic and Emmanuel A. Codillo and Linus Streicher and Maria Rosa Scicchitano and Uwe Wiechert and Frieder Klein and Horst R. Marschall and Marco Scambelluri, Science Advances (2024) | Journal article

  Hydrothermal alteration of the oceanic lithosphere , in Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
  Esther M. Schwarzenbach, Michelle Harris (2023), ISBN: 9780124095489 | Book chapter

  Sulfur isotope evidence from peridotite enclaves in southern West Greenland for recycling of surface material into Eoarchean depleted mantle domains
  J.A. Lewis and J.E. Hoffmann and E.M. Schwarzenbach and H. Strauss and C. Li and C. Münker and M.T. Rosing, Chemical Geology (2023) | Journal article

  Fluid‐Mediated Mass Transfer Between Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks in Subduction Zones
  E. A. Codillo and F. Klein and B. Dragovic and H. R. Marschall and E. Baxter and M. Scambelluri and E. Schwarzenbach‬, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2022) | Journal article

  Geochemistry of serpentinized and multiphase altered Atlantis Massif peridotites (IODP Expedition 357): Petrogenesis and discrimination of melt-rock vs. fluid-rock processes
  Scott A. Whattam and Gretchen L. Früh-Green and Mathilde Cannat and Jan C.M. De Hoog and Esther M. Schwarzenbach and Javier Escartin and Barbara E. John and Mathew I. Leybourne and Morgan J. Williams and Stéphane Rouméjon and Norikatsu Akizawa and Chiara Boschi and Michelle Harris and Kirsten Wenzel and Andrew McCaig and Dominique Weis and Laura Bilenker, Chemical Geology (2022) | Journal article

  Slab-derived devolatilization fluids oxidized by subducted metasedimentary rocks
  Jay J. Ague and Santiago Tassara and Megan E. Holycross and Ji-Lei Li and Elizabeth Cottrell and Esther M. Schwarzenbach and Charalampos Fassoulas and Timm John, Nature Geoscience (2022) | Journal article

  Sulfur isotope evidence for surface-derived sulfur in Eoarchean TTGs
  Jonathan A. Lewis and J. Elis Hoffmann and Esther M. Schwarzenbach and Harald Strauss and Moritz Liesegang and Minik T. Rosing, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2021) | Journal article

  On exhumation velocities of high-pressure units based on insights from chemical zoning in garnet (Tianshan, NW China)
  Esther M. Schwarzenbach and Xin Zhong and Mark J. Caddick and Stefan M. Schmalholz and Martina Menneken and Lutz Hecht and Timm John, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2021) | Journal article

  Sulfide Dissolution and Awaruite Formation in Continental Serpentinization Environments and Its Implications to Supporting Life
  E. M. Schwarzenbach and J. C. Vrijmoed and J. M. Engelmann and M. Liesegang and U. Wiechert and R. Rohne and O. Plümper, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2021) | Journal article

  Serpentinization, Carbonation, and Metasomatism of Ultramafic Sequences in the Northern Apennine Ophiolite (NW Italy)
  Esther M. Schwarzenbach and Monica Vogel and Gretchen L. Früh-Green and Chiara Boschi, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (2021) | Journal article

  Subduction zone sulfur mobilization and redistribution by intraslab fluid–rock interaction
  Li, J.-L. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and John, T. and Ague, J.J. and Tassara, S. and Gao, J. and Konecke, B.A., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2021) | Journal article

  Uncovering and quantifying the subduction zone sulfur cycle from the slab perspective
  Li, J.-L. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and John, T. and Ague, J.J. and Huang, F. and Gao, J. and Klemd, R. and Whitehouse, M.J. and Wang, X.-S., Nature Communications (2020) | Journal article

  Fluids in submarine mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal settings
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Steele-MacInnis, M., Elements (2020) | Journal article

  Sulfur isotope compositions of pyrite from high-pressure metamorphic rocks and related veins (SW Tianshan, China): Implications for the sulfur cycle in subduction zones
  Su, W. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Chen, L. and Li, Y. and John, T. and Gao, J. and Chen, F. and Hu, X., Lithos (2019) | Journal article

  Alteration heterogeneities in peridotites exhumed on the southern wall of the Atlantis Massif (IODP Expedition 357)
  Rouméjon, S. and Früh-Green, G.L. and Orcutt, B.N. and Green, S. and Cotterill, C. and Morgan, S. and Akizawa, N. and Bayrakci, G. and Behrmann, J.-H. and Herrero-Bervera, E. and Boschi, C. and Brazelton, W. and Cannat, M. and Dunkel, K.G. and Escartin, J. and Harris, M. and Hesse, K. and John, B. and Lang, S.Q. and Lilley, M. and Liu, H.-Q. and Mayhew, L. and McCaig, A. and Menez, B. and Morono, Y. and Quéméneur, M. and Ratnayake, A.S. and Schrenk, M. and Schwarzenbach, E. and Twing, K. and Weis, D. and Whattam, S.A. and Williams, M. and Zhao, R., Journal of Petrology (2018) | Journal article

  Tectonic origin of serpentinites on Syros, Greece: Geochemical signatures of abyssal origin preserved in a HP/LT subduction complex
  Cooperdock, E.H.G. and Raia, N.H. and Barnes, J.D. and Stockli, D.F. and Schwarzenbach, E.M., Lithos (2018) | Journal article

  Magmatism, serpentinization and life: Insights through drilling the Atlantis Massif (IODP Expedition 357)
  Früh-Green, G.L. and Orcutt, B.N. and Rouméjon, S. and Lilley, M.D. and Morono, Y. and Cotterill, C. and Green, S. and Escartin, J. and John, B.E. and McCaig, A.M. and Cannat, M. and Ménez, B. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Williams, M.J. and Morgan, S. and Lang, S.Q. and Schrenk, M.O. and Brazelton, W.J. and Akizawa, N. and Boschi, C. and Dunkel, K.G. and Quéméneur, M. and Whattam, S.A. and Mayhew, L. and Harris, M. and Bayrakci, G. and Behrmann, J.-H. and Herrero-Bervera, E. and Hesse, K. and Liu, H.-Q. and Ratnayake, A.S. and Twing, K. and Weis, D. and Zhao, R. and Bilenker, L., Lithos (2018) | Journal article

  Unraveling multiple phases of sulfur cycling during the alteration of ancient ultramafic oceanic lithosphere
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Gill, B.C. and Johnston, D.T., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2018) | Journal article

  Tracking Water-Rock Interaction at the Atlantis Massif (MAR, 30°N) Using Sulfur Geochemistry
  Liebmann, J. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Früh-Green, G.L. and Boschi, C. and Rouméjon, S. and Strauss, H. and Wiechert, U. and John, T., Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2018) | Journal article

  Sulphur and carbon cycling in the subduction zone mélange
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Caddick, M.J. and Petroff, M. and Gill, B.C. and Cooperdock, E.H.G. and Barnes, J.D., Scientific Reports (2018) | Journal article

  Elastic and electrical properties and permeability of serpentinites from Atlantis Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  Ismael Falcon-Suarez and Gaye Bayrakci and Tim A. Minshull and Laurence J. North and Angus I. Best and Stéphane Rouméjon and, Geophysical Journal International (2017) | Journal article

  Atlantis Massif serpentinization and life
  Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program (2017) | Journal article

  Central sites , in Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program
  C. Cotterill, G.L. Früh-Green, B.N. Orcutt, S.L. Green, S. Morgan, N. Akizawa, C. Boschi, G. Bayrakci, J.-H. Behrmann, W.J. Brazleton, M. Cannat, K.G. Dunkel, J. Escartin, M. Harris, E. Herrero-Bervera, K. Hesse, B.E. John, S.Q. Lang, M.D. Lilley, H.-Q. Liu, L.E. Mayhew, A.M. McCaig, B. Menez, Y. Morono, M. Quéméneur, S. Rouméjon, A. Sandaruwan Ratnayake, M.O. Schrenk, E.M. Schwarzenbach, K.I. Twing, D. Weis, S.A. Whattham, M. Williams, R. Zhao (2017) | Book chapter

  Eastern sites , in Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program
  G.L. Früh-Green, B.N. Orcutt, S.L. Green, C. Cotterill, S. Morgan, N. Akizawa, G. Bayrakci, J.-H. Behrmann, C. Boschi, W.J. Brazleton, M. Cannat, K.G. Dunkel, J. Escartin, M. Harris, E. Herrero-Bervera, K. Hesse, B.E. John, S.Q. Lang, M.D. Lilley, H.-Q. Liu, L.E. Mayhew, A.M. McCaig, B. Menez, Y. Morono, M. Quéméneur, S. Rouméjon, A. Sandaruwan Ratnayake, M.O. Schrenk, E.M. Schwarzenbach, K.I. Twing, D. Weis, S.A. Whattham, M. Williams, R. Zhao (2017) | Book chapter

  Western sites , in Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program
  G.L. Früh-Green, B.N. Orcutt, S.L. Green, C. Cotterill, S. Morgan, N. Akizawa, G. Bayrakci, J.-H. Behrmann, C. Boschi, W.J. Brazleton, M. Cannat, K.G. Dunkel, J. Escartin, M. Harris, E. Herrero-Bervera, K. Hesse, B.E. John, S.Q. Lang, M.D. Lilley, H.-Q. Liu, L.E. Mayhew, A.M. McCaig, B. Menez, Y. Morono, M. Quéméneur, S. Rouméjon, A. Sandaruwan Ratnayake, M.O. Schrenk, E.M. Schwarzenbach, K.I. Twing, D. Weis, S.A. Whattham, M. Williams, R. Zhao (2017) | Book chapter

  Expedition 357 summary , in Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program
  A.M. McCaig, B. Menez, Y. Morono, G.L. Früh-Green, B.N. Orcutt, S.L. Green, C. Cotterill, S. Morgan, N. Akizawa, G. Bayrakci, J.-H. Behrmann, C. Boschi, W.J. Brazleton, M. Cannat, K.G. Dunkel, J. Escartin, M. Harris, E. Herrero-Bervera, K. Hesse, B.E. John, S.Q. Lang, M.D. Lilley, H.-Q. Liu, L.E. Mayhew, A. Sandaruwan Ratnayake, M. Quéméneur, S. Rouméjon, M.O. Schrenk, E.M. Schwarzenbach, K.I. Twing, D. Weis, S.A. Whattham, M. Williams, R. Zhao (2017) | Book chapter

  Northern sites , in Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program
  G.L. Früh-Green, B.N. Orcutt, S.L. Green, C. Cotterill, S. Morgan, N. Akizawa, G. Bayrakci, J.-H. Behrmann, C. Boschi, W.J. Brazleton, M. Cannat, K.G. Dunkel, J. Escartin, M. Harris, E. Herrero-Bervera, K. Hesse, B.E. John, S.Q. Lang, M.D. Lilley, H.-Q. Liu, L.E. Mayhew, A.M. McCaig, B. Menez, Y. Morono, M. Quéméneur, S. Rouméjon, A. Sandaruwan Ratnayake, M.O. Schrenk, E.M. Schwarzenbach, K.I. Twing, D. Weis, S.A. Whattham, M. Williams, R. Zhao (2017) | Book chapter

  Expedition 357 methods , in Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program
  G.L. Früh-Green, B.N. Orcutt, S.L. Green, C. Cotterill, S. Morgan, N. Akizawa, G. Bayrakci, J.-H. Behrmann, C. Boschi, W.J. Brazleton, M. Cannat, K.G. Dunkel, J. Escartin, M. Harris, E. Herrero-Bervera, K. Hesse, B.E. John, S.Q. Lang, M.D. Lilley, H.-Q. Liu, L.E. Mayhew, A.M. McCaig, B. Menez, Y. Morono, M. Quéméneur, S. Rouméjon, A. Sandaruwan Ratnayake, M.O. Schrenk, E.M. Schwarzenbach, K.I. Twing, D. Weis, S.A. Whattham, M. Williams, R. Zhao (2017) | Book chapter

  Effect of water activity on rates of serpentinization of olivine
  Lamadrid, H.M. and Rimstidt, J.D. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Klein, F. and Ulrich, S. and Dolocan, A. and Bodnar, R.J., Nature Communications (2017) | Journal article

  Serpentinization and the formation of fluid pathways
  Schwarzenbach, E.M., Geology (2016) | Journal article

  Serpentinization, element transfer, and the progressive development of zoning in veins: evidence from a partially serpentinized harzburgite
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Caddick, M.J. and Beard, J.S. and Bodnar, R.J., Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (2016) | Journal article

  Chromium isotope fractionation during subduction-related metamorphism, black shale weathering, and hydrothermal alteration
  Wang, X. and Planavsky, N.J. and Reinhard, C.T. and Zou, H. and Ague, J.J. and Wu, Y. and Gill, B.C. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B., Chemical Geology (2016) | Journal article

  Sulfur and carbon geochemistry of the Santa Elena peridotites: Comparing oceanic and continental processes during peridotite alteration
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Gill, B.C. and Gazel, E. and Madrigal, P., Lithos (2016) | Journal article

  Fluid mixing and the deep biosphere of a fossil Lost City-type hydrothermal system at the Iberia Margin
  Klein, F. and Humphris, S.E. and Guo, W. and Schubotz, F. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Orsi, W.D. and Karl, D.M., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2015) | Journal article

  Hydrothermal processes in partially serpentinized peridotites from Costa Rica: evidence from native copper and complex sulfide assemblages
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Gazel, E. and Caddick, M.J., Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (2014) | Journal article

  Geochemical evidence for active tropical serpentinization in the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica: An analog of a humid early Earth?
  Sánchez-Murillo, R. and Gazel, E. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Crespo-Medina, M. and Schrenk, M.O. and Boll, J. and Gill, B.C., Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (2014) | Journal article

  Sources and cycling of carbon in continental, serpentinite-hosted alkaline springs in the Voltri Massif, Italy
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Lang, S.Q. and Früh-Green, G.L. and Lilley, M.D. and Bernasconi, S.M. and Méhay, S., Lithos (2013) | Journal article

  The role of serpentinites in cycling of carbon and sulfur: Seafloor serpentinization and subduction metamorphism
  Alt, J.C. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Früh-Green, G.L. and Shanks, W.C. and Bernasconi, S.M. and Garrido, C.J. and Crispini, L. and Gaggero, L. and Padrón-Navarta, J.A. and Marchesi, C., Lithos (2013) | Journal article

  Serpentinization and carbon sequestration: A study of two ancient peridotite-hosted hydrothermal systems
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Früh-Green, G.L. and Bernasconi, S.M. and Alt, J.C. and Plas, A., Chemical Geology (2013) | Journal article

  Sulfur geochemistry of peridotite-hosted hydrothermal systems: Comparing the Ligurian ophiolites with oceanic serpentinites
  Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Früh-Green, G.L. and Bernasconi, S.M. and Alt, J.C. and Shanks III, W.C. and Gaggero, L. and Crispini, L., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2012) | Journal article

  Uptake of carbon and sulfur during seafloor serpentinization and the effects of subduction metamorphism in Ligurian peridotites
  Alt, J.C. and Shanks, W.C. and Crispini, L. and Gaggero, L. and Schwarzenbach, E.M. and Früh-Green, G.L. and Bernasconi, S.M., Chemical Geology (2012) | Journal article

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