Ocean sediments consist mainly of calcium carbonate and organic matter (phytoplankton debris). Once subducted, some carbon is removed from the slab and returns to the atmosphere as CO in arc magmas. Its isotopic signature is thought to reflect the bulk fraction of inorganic (carbonate) and organic (graphitic) carbon in the sedimentary source. Here we challenge this assumption by experimentally investigating model sediments composed of C-CaCO + C-graphite interacting with water at pressure, temperature and redox conditions of an average slab-mantle interface beneath arcs. We show that oxidative dissolution of graphite is the main process controlling the production of CO, and its isotopic composition reflects the CO/CaCO rather than the bulk graphite/CaCO (i.e., organic/inorganic carbon) fraction. We provide a mathematical model to relate the arc CO isotopic signature with the fluid-rock ratios and the redox state in force in its subarc source.
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