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OU-led study links deep-time dust with major impacts on carbon cycling


November 17, 2015

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A University of Oklahoma (OU)-led study links vast amounts of iron-rich dust deposits from the late Paleozoic period 300 million years ago with implications for major ecosystem fertilization and a massive drawdown of atmospheric carbon. Understanding iron fertilization and other deep-time events may explain present and future climate change, and aid scientists and policymakers when making decisions related to geoengineering the Earth.Full Story

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