Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, sediment cores hold secrets that could reshape how scientists predict Earth's climate future. These deep-sea layers capture snapshots of ancient oceans, revealing ...
After years of deep-sea sleuthing, National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has created a treasure map. It’s not drawn on ...
For years, dozens of Chinese research vessels have been crossing the Pacific, Indian, and Arctic oceans in tight, grid-like ...
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The preservation of organic carbon in marine sediments has long been a key question remaining unclear in understanding the long-term carbon cycling on Earth. Recently, scientists have gained new ...
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Scientists extracted a 5.3 million-year record of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by drilling sediment cores in the Earth's most remote waters. Here, the drill ship JOIDES Resolution makes its way ...
Microbe-mediated oxidation may account for at least 5% of the global dissolved organic carbon loss from the deep ocean, according to carbon isotope analyses on cool crustal fluids circulating through ...
The story of how the last Ice Age ended is being rewritten from the bottom up, as new records etched into the sea floor reveal a far more dynamic and interconnected climate system than the traditional ...
Daniel Ohnemus is at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Savannah, Georgia 31411, USA. Read the paper: Abyssal seafloor as a key driver of ...