Study sheds light on how Earth cycles its fossil carbon

The Rio Madre de Dios basin was an ideal location to study how the Earth cycles fossil carbon. Credit: Mark Torres/Rice University

As the primary element of life on our planet, carbon is constantly journeying from living creatures down into the Earth’s crust and back up into the atmosphere, but until recently, quantifying this journey was virtually impossible.

To help unravel the mystery of how the…

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News Source: phys.org


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