Oceanic Transform Fault News Today

Woods Hole MA (SPX) Feb 13, 2024 - Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic I

<p>•This study reports widespread mineral carbonation of mantle rocks in an oceanic transform fueled by magmatic degassing of CO<sub>2</sub>. </p> <p>•The findings describe a previously unknown part of the geological carbon cycle in transform faults that represent one of the three principal plate boundaries on Earth. </p> <p>•The confluence of tectonically exhumed mantle rocks and CO<sub>2</sub>-ri...