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Howard Lee
@hlee.bsky.social
Geologist and Science Writer: If you want to see what climate change can do to the planet just look at Earth's past!
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Comes on top of a paper 1 year ago suggesting organic carbon weathering offsets silicate weathering. So we now would appear to have mountain building as a source of CO2 not a sink. Im not sure that's tenable. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rock organic carbon oxidation CO2 release offsets silicate weathering sink - Nature
Silicate weathering of uplifted rock depletes atmospheric CO2, but oxidation of revealed rock organic carbon supplies CO2, offsetting depletion to a degree dependent on regional geological history.
Organic matter burial to the rescue? www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Efficient organic carbon burial in the Bengal fan sustained by the Himalayan erosional system - Nature
A comprehensive organic carbon budget for the Himalayan erosional system is presented, and finds that organic carbon export is controlled by sediment properties and that oxidative loss is negligible d...
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Howard Lee
@hlee.bsky.social
Geologist and Science Writer: If you want to see what climate change can do to the planet just look at Earth's past!
h-lee.com/
438 followers480 following798 posts