Thursday, November 10, 2016
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Scientists Probing Underground Depths Of Earth’s Carbon Cycle
Understanding how carbon dissolves in water at the molecular level under extreme conditions is critical to understanding the Earth’s deep carbon cycle–a process that ultimately influences global climate change.
Contrary to current geochemical models, the carbon dissolved in water-rich fluid at the bottom of the Earth’s upper mantle is not in the form of carbon dioxide but rather in carbonate and bicarbonate ions...