Marine regression emerges as key driver of Late Paleozoic Ice Age in high-resolution model

Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering Earth system mechanisms. To overcome the spatiotemporal resolution ...
Nature

Critical Zone Processes and Weathering Dynamics

The Critical Zone encompasses the near‐surface environment where rock, soil, water, air and biota interact in a dynamic equilibrium that drives essential geochemical cycles. Research in this area ...
EurekAlert!

Weathering of rocks by mosses may explain climate effects during the Late Ordovician

image: During the Ordovician period, the concentration of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the ...
Gizmodo

This Is the Slowest and Most Destructive Process on Earth

Rocks are not eternal. Even the tallest mountain will eventually dissolve and disintegrate. Geologists call this process “weathering.” It sounds harmless enough, but weathering is one of the most ...