Geosciences Research

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DOI: 10.22606/gr.2016.11001

• Vladimir V. Chakov^*
  Institute of Water and Ecology Problem, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dikopol’tseva St., 56, Khabarovsk, 680000 Russia
• Nikolai V. Berdnikov
  Kosygin Institute of Tectonics and Geophysics, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kim Yu Chen St., 65, Khabarovsk, 680000 Russia
• Alexander P. Kuzmenko
  South-West State University, ul. 50 let Oktyabrya, 94, Kursk, 305040 Russia

The article discusses the results of experimental synthesis of fullerenoids from naturally occurring biogenic materials. Mechanical activation of amorphous carbon derived from Sphagnum moss (Sphagnum fuscum) turns it into carbon nanotubes. It is shown that conditions approximating those in the experiment can be generated in settings of active continental margins and intracontinental rifting when lava flows into the basins where sapropels deposited.

Sphagnum moss, pyrolysis, carbon nanotubes, mechanical activation, active continental margin, intracontinental rifting.

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