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Recently, carbonates have attracted a lot of attention, due to the recognition of their importance in the global carbon cycle. This was enabled by improvement of the experimental techniques that allow for investigating the stability, structure, and physical properties of materials and high-pressures and high-temperatures, that is, they allow for investigating minerals and geochemical processes at the conditions occurring deep inside Earth. Although a lot of research has been focused on carbonates, there are still some open questions regarding their structure and physical properties at such extreme conditions. The aim of this thesis is to establish a deeper understanding of the nature of the phase transitions in carbonates by studying how do the atoms building up the crystal structure vibrate, that is lattice dynamics. The methodology adapted in this study is a combination of experimental and computational methods which allows for a very thorough examination of the problem. The computational approach allows to determine parameters that are elusive or tedious to measure, and the experimental results provide a solid benchmark for the calculations. This tandem of methods has been widely used for investigating lattice dynamics of various materials. In this study it was used to elucidate the structure and properties of carbonates in the deep Earth conditions