A Zen discovery: Unrusted iron in ocean
Sunday, February 8, 2009 - 14:14
in Earth & Climate
Iron dust, the gold of the oceans and rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or - a surprising new study finds - float up from the sea floor. The discovery, published online Feb. 8 in Nature Geoscience, connects life at the surface to events occurring at extreme depths and pressures.