Basaltic Rocks in Iceland Effective Sinks for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Basaltic Rocks in Iceland Effective Sinks for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (4 of 4)

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Members of the CarbFix science team handling rock core recovered from the core barrel during drilling at the CarbFix pilot CO2 injection site (October 2014). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 10, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.M. Matter at University of Southampton in Southampton, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Rapid carbon mineralization for permanent disposal of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions."

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Photo by Juerg Matter

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