Understanding The Carbon Cycle - Iron And Manganese In Methane Conversion
Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 20:28
in Earth & Climate
Sulfate gets all the attention but iron and manganese compounds may be important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers looking at anaerobic sediments. Those same compounds may also have been key to methane reduction in the early, oxygenless days of the planet's atmosphere. On the early Earth, where oxygen was absent from the atmosphere, sulfates were scarce. read more
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