Moving ice on early Earth exposed deep rocks, freed key elements, and nudged our planet toward conditions where complex life ...

Carbonate rock chemical weathering carbon sinks reduce the rate of increase of the atmospheric CO 2 concentration and global warming. Based on the river ion concentration data, the stochastic forest ...

Researchers in China achieved a milestone by directly dating a fossilized dinosaur egg at 85.9 million years old, marking a first in paleontology. Using carbonate uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The mineral assemblages of upper Mississippian carbonate rocks of the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, with only minor exception, obey the ...

Niue Island is a former atoll whose reef and lagoon floor are now stranded above sea level. Thirty-five samples of limestones and dolostones, taken at 1.5 m intervals down a 52.4 m deep well, were ...

A clutch of dinosaur eggs found in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an “atomic ...

The discovery by the Mars rovers of carbonate in sedimentary rock on the Red Planet has enabled planetary scientists to rewind the clock and tell the tale of how Mars' warmer, watery climate 3.5 ...

Are basaltic rocks along continental margins suitable for the permanent and safe storage of carbon dioxide? This is the question a team of German and Norwegian researchers will be pursuing on board ...

Researchers found a hydrothermal field that covers about 4.3 square miles. and it is over 100 times larger than its Atlantic ...

The Curiosity rover was sent up the Mount Sharp, the biggest sediments stack on Mars. On the way, it collected samples that indicated a portion of carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere might have ...