Researchers studying ocean transform faults, describe a previously unknown part of the geological carbon cycle

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  (…) “What we have now pieced together is that the mantle rocks that are exposed along these ocean transform faults represent a potentially vast sink for CO2,” …
  " (…) global anthropogenic CO2 emissions are estimated to be on the order of 36 gigatons (Gt) per year, dwarfing estimates of average geological emissions (0.26 Gt per year) to the atmosphere and hydrosphere."

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