Massive volcanic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ... due to a natural climate feedback—silicate rock weathering, Earth's main mechanism for stabilizing climate over longer periods of time," says Bauer.

Rocks, particularly the types created by volcanic activity, play a critical ... The biggest limit on weathering is the amount of silicate minerals exposed at any given time. Grinding up volcanic ...

The volcanic activity emits carbon dioxide that replaces that taken out by silicate weathering, and the carbonate-silicate cycle goes on. So on million-year timescales, the level of carbon dioxide ...

Volcanic activity at these ridges usually releases ... This process, known as silicate weathering, removes CO2 from the atmosphere by locking it into minerals. The Franklin large igneous province ...

Giant volcanic ... weathering occurred under hothouse conditions during the late Triassic. The bedrock was slowly transformed, and the transformation co-occurred with emerging volcanic activity.

Brantley and her colleagues instead studied a group of minerals known as silicate ... s weathering; it’s hard for geologists to separate chemical weathering from biological activity or ...

The weathering of silicate minerals in bedrock ... either the release of CO 2 by volcanic activity changes, or something strengthens the processes sucking CO 2 out of the atmosphere.

When the weak acid rains down on volcanic rock, silicate minerals in the rock dissolve. This weathering releases calcium, magnesium and other nutrients needed by plants and forms stable ...

Professor Anja Schmidt of the German Aerospace Center and the Universities of Munich and Cambridge would make a movie to explain that “volcanoes ... say if silicate weathering didn’t exist ...

Known as the Compton-Belkovich region, this part of the moon contains thorium and other silicate rocks, suggesting a more involved type of volcanic activity than that which created the moon's well ...