Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Study: Cold climates and ocean carbon sequestration

03/22/2017 03:57 PM EDT

Tony Wang (left) and Jess Adkins (right) with samples of Desmophyllum dianthus fossils

A new study suggests that efficient nutrient consumption by plankton in the Southern Ocean drove carbon sequestration in the deep ocean during the ice ages.


Full story at http://www.caltech.edu/news/study-cold-climates-and-ocean-carbon-sequestration-54398

Source
California Institute of Technology


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