Carbon in the earth's mantle [Elektronische Ressource] : solubility and speciation in major nominally volatile-free mantle minerals / vorgelegt von Svyatoslav Shcheka

Carbon in the Earth’s Mantle: Solubility and speciation in major nominally volatile-free mantle minerals Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften der Geowissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen vorgelegt von SVYATOSLAV SHCHEKA aus Wladiwostok (Russland) 2006 Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 08.02.2006 Dekan: Prof. Klaus G. Nickel, Ph.D. 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Hans Keppler 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Muharrem Satir Acknowledgement _____________________________________________________________________ Acknowledgements I want to thank all people who contributed and helped me to make possible this research at Institute for Geosciences, University of Tübingen. I have really enjoyed working here. First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Prof. Dr. H. Keppler, for being an outstanding advisor. Thank him for giving me the opportunity to deal with interesting subjects and valuable discussions during this work, for his fruitful assistance and patience, without which composing the current dissertation would not have been possible. His very critical but very true and constructive reviews of earlier versions substantially improved the text of this thesis.