About the Authors

Zuolin Liu

zl17@rice.edu

Affiliation Department of Earth Science, Rice University, MS, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Brandon Dugan

Current address: Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Earth Science, Rice University, MS, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Caroline A. Masiello

Affiliations Department of Earth Science, Rice University, MS, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Departments of Chemistry and BioSciences, Rice University, MS, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Helge M. Gonnermann

Affiliation Department of Earth Science, Rice University, MS, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZL BD CAM. Data curation: ZL. Formal analysis: ZL. Funding acquisition: BD CAM. Investigation: ZL BD CAM. Methodology: ZL BD CAM. Project administration: BD CAM. Resources: BD CAM HG. Software: ZL. Supervision: BD CAM. Validation: ZL BD CAM HG. Visualization: ZL. Writing – original draft: ZL. Writing – review & editing: ZL BD CAM HG.