Thanks guys & gals
There is a lot of this 'peridotitety' type stuff in Ozz too.
I nearly did geology
Wish I did.
(My kids loved rocks, especially the shiny expensive ones.) Being an Ozzie I would be a multi-millionaire by now.
Great links thanks
I will keep my antennae out for it in future.
Quote:
Chemical reactions that pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the form of solid rock inside geological formations could offset billions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions each year, according to researchers at Columbia University, in New York. The scientists say that research done on large rock formations in Oman suggests new ways to sequester carbon-dioxide emissions to help lessen global warming.
The researchers have shown that rock formations called peridotite, which are found in Oman and several other places worldwide, including California and New Guinea, produce calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate rock when they come into contact with carbon dioxide. The scientists found that such formations in Oman naturally sequester hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide a year.
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