The long-term carbon cycle is vital for maintaining liquid water oceans on rocky planets due to the negative climate feedbacks involved in silicate weathering. Plate tectonics plays a crucial role in driving the long-term carbon cycle because it is responsible for CO2 degassing at ridges and arcs, the return of CO2 to the mantle through subduction, and supplying fresh, weatherable rock to the s...

The mineral weathering ability of 45 bacterial strains belonging to the genus Collimonas and coming from various terrestrial environments was compared to that of 5 representatives from the closely related genera Herbaspirillum and Janthinobacterium. Using glucose as the sole carbon source in a microplate assay for quantifying the release of iron and protons from biotite, all Collimonas strains ...

Weathering pro®les developed on organic carbon-rich black shales were studied to examine the loss and degradation of organic matter (OM) during weathering and its role in the geochemical carbon cycle. Analysis of weathered shales reveals between 60 and nearly 100% total organic carbon (TOC) loss in highly weathered samples relative to initial, unweathered TOC content. Pyrite loss coincides with...

This study examined the color stability of painted Norway spruce (Picea abies) samples subjected to natural and accelerated weathering, using Duncan’s tests and correlation analyses. The following effects were studied: (1) the different initial roughness of the wood; (2) use of transparent or lightly-pigmented top-coat layers; and (3) the presence of the final water-repellent layer. Natural wea...

Global silicate weathering drives long-time-scale fluctuations in atmospheric CO(2). While tectonics, climate, and rock-type influence silicate weathering, it is unclear how these factors combine to drive global rates. Here, we explore whether local erosion rates, GCM-derived dust fluxes, temperature, and water balance can capture global variation in silicate weathering. Our spatially explicit ...

How the oil spill compositions change in the weathering process is an important topic for marine environment protection. In this study, long-term weathering simulation tests were conducted for 2 kinds of crude oils from the platforms of different blocks in Bohai Sea and 2 kinds of heavy marine fuel oils. Both floating oils and oils sunken in the seawater were analyzed. Gas chromatography (GC) r...

Negative emission technologies (NETs) target the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, and are being actively investigated as a strategy to limit global warming to within the 1.5-2°C targets of the 2015 UN climate agreement. Enhanced silicate weathering (ESW) proposes to exploit the natural process of mineral weathering for the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere. Here, we discuss...

Mineral surface-textures on naturally weathered c of staurolite [monoclinic, pseudo-orthorhombic; Fe4Al18Sis046( rtalS indicate that staurolite weathering is general1 interface-limited. Etch pits on naturally weathered staurolites are disi-shaped, extensive parallel to (OIO), and thin perpendicular to (010). (010) is the plane of weak bonding and weak cleavage and the orientation of common stac...

[1] We sought to determine the effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 on mineral weathering reactions in midlatitude carbonate-bearing forest soils of differing nutrient availability. Increased plant growth and soil respiration under elevated atmospheric CO2 suggest increased rates of carbon cycling, which may affect mineral weathering. A randomized complete block experiment was conducted, where as...

In this study, a green composite was produced from Oil Palm Trunk Lumber (OPTL) by impregnating oil palm shell (OPS) nanoparticles with formaldehyde resin. The changes of physical, mechanical and morphological properties of the OPS nanoparticles impregnated OPTL as a result of natural weathering was investigated. The OPS fibres were ground with a ball-mill for producing nanoparticles before bei...