Rock Weathering and Climate: What a New Study Found

A new Nature Communications study finds that eroding organic carbon in rock amplified global warming during the Toarcian event 183 million years…

Why rock weathering cuts both ways

Here is the tension at the center of the research.

Reading the climate in 183-million-year-old mud

To settle the question, the team did not model the future.

How rhenium isotopes became a carbon tracer

The clever part is the measurement.

A 1,300-meter core and a measurement at the edge of possible

The raw material was a 1,300-meter rock core spanning the late Triassic to the early Jurassic, drilled in the 1960s in Wales and now stored by the British Geological Survey.

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