In a study published in Science Advances, scientists have used new lithium isotope (δ 7 Li) data to show that continental clay export promoted organic carbon burial and thus atmospheric oxygenation ...

TEMPE, Ariz.– Arizona State University geochemist Lynda Williams and her colleagues have discovered that certain clay minerals under conditions at the bottom of the ocean may have acted as incubators ...

Clay minerals suspended in seawater binds sedimentary organic carbon to their mineral surfaces. But the quantity of carbon that is bound and the source of that carbon very much depends on the clay ...

According to a new study published in Science Advances, scientists have used new lithium isotope (δ 7 Li) data to show that continental clay export promoted organic carbon burial and thus atmospheric ...

Rivers discharge a constant supply of sediment into the world's oceans. This sediment is largely composed of various clay minerals - the products of rock weathering - and organic compounds of plant ...