Figure 3
(a) Frequency spectrum analysis of 403 carbon-bearing minerals, with 82 922 individual mineral–locality data (from https://mindat.org as of January 2015). (b) Prediction of the mineral species accumulation curve (All), which plots the number of expected carbon mineral species (y axis) as additional mineral species/locality data (x axis) are discovered. The vertical dashed line indicates data recorded. Images taken with permission from Hazen et al. (2016). |