Global silicate weathering flux overestimated because of sediment–water cation exchange
(2020)
Journal Article
Tipper, E. T., Stevenson, E. I., Alcock, V., Knight, A. C. G., Baronas, J. J., Hilton, R. G., …Hughes, G. (2021). Global silicate weathering flux overestimated because of sediment–water cation exchange. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(1), Article e2016430118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016430118
Large rivers transport water and sediment to floodplains and oceans, supplying the nutrients that sustain life. They also transport carbon, removed from the atmosphere during mineral dissolution reactions, which is thought to provide a key negative c... Read More about Global silicate weathering flux overestimated because of sediment–water cation exchange.