Unlocking earth's climate past: A new tracer identifies weathering intensity over time
Tuesday, April 16, 2019 - 07:20
in Earth & Climate
Researchers at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Nanjing University have developed a more accurate way to study the global carbon cycle—specifically, one of the most important ways CO2 is removed from the atmosphere. The study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reports on a substantial advance in understanding the process by which minerals called silicates break down, or weather.