Deep Sea Lavas Bake Sediments, Add to Warming
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One of the places where Nature was thought to suck up and bury atmospheric carbon may actually be doing just the opposite, according to new research on the volcanics of deep-sea ridges.Seismic profiles of the rifting Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California show molten rock from a deep-sea ridge squeezing far and wide as "sills" of magma into the layers of ocean floor sediments. The sediments, which are loaded with organic debris, are baked by the magma and so release vast amounts of greenhouse gases.
LINK : http://news.discovery.com/earth/deep-sea-lava-climate.html
LINK : http://news.discovery.com/earth/deep-sea-lava-climate.html
