Sulphide oxidation and carbonate dissolution as a source of CO2 over geological timescales

Mark A. Torres (), A. Joshua West () and Gaojun Li ()
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Mark A. Torres: University of Southern California
A. Joshua West: University of Southern California
Gaojun Li: MOE Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlindadao, Nanjing 210046, China

Nature, 2014, vol. 507, issue 7492, 346-349

Abstract: Sulphide oxidation coupled to carbonate dissolution can provide a transient source of carbon dioxide to Earth’s atmosphere and so balance the Cenozoic increase in carbon dioxide consumption by silicate weathering, reconciling this increase with the need for mass balance in the long-term carbon cycle.

Date: 2014
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