Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives

JWB Rae, YG Zhang, X Liu, GL Foster… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Throughout Earth's history, CO2 is thought to have exerted a fundamental control on
environmental change. Here we review and revise CO2 reconstructions from boron isotopes …

[HTML][HTML] A plastic world: A review of microplastic pollution in the freshwaters of the Earth's poles

F Citterich, AL Giudice, M Azzaro - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution is of great environmental concern. MPs have been found all over
the Earth, including in the poles, which is indicative for the important threat they constitute …

Mountains, erosion and the carbon cycle

RG Hilton, AJ West - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Mountain building results in high erosion rates and the interaction of rocks with the
atmosphere, water and life. Carbon transfers that result from increased erosion could control …

[HTML][HTML] How does glacier discharge affect marine biogeochemistry and primary production in the Arctic?

MJ Hopwood, D Carroll, T Dunse, A Hodson… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Freshwater discharge from glaciers is increasing across the Arctic in response to
anthropogenic climate change, which raises questions about the potential downstream …

Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve

X Chen, Y Zhou, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The secular trend of seawater strontium isotope ratio (87 Sr/86 Sr) reflects changes in the
relative contributions of continental versus mantle reservoirs to ocean composition, and …

Silicate weathering as a feedback and forcing in Earth's climate and carbon cycle

DE Penman, JKC Rugenstein, DE Ibarra… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Current understanding of the long-term carbon cycle posits that Earth's climate is stabilized
by a negative feedback involving CO 2 consumption by chemical weathering of silicate …

A Cenozoic record of deep oceanic Zn isotopic composition in ferromanganese crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

High‐resolution map** of the global silicate weathering carbon sink and its long‐term changes

C Li, X Bai, Q Tan, G Luo, L Wu, F Chen… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climatic and non‐climatic factors affect the chemical weathering of silicate rocks, which in
turn affects the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere on a long‐term scale. However, the …

Global climate control on carbonate weathering intensity

J Gaillardet, D Calmels, G Romero-Mujalli… - Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Carbonate rocks are a peculiarity of the Earth relative to other planets in the solar system.
Large terrestrial areas are covered by carbonate lithology, which actively reacts with …

Temperature control on CO2 emissions from the weathering of sedimentary rocks

G Soulet, RG Hilton, MH Garnett, T Roylands… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Sedimentary rocks can release carbon dioxide (CO2) during the weathering of rock organic
carbon and sulfide minerals. This sedimentary carbon could act as a feedback on Earth's …