Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Lava shows most of our carbon churns in deep Earth
[ Tue, 07 May 2013 15:59:52 GMT ]
By Becky IskinLiveScienceMost of Earth's carbon clusters deep beneath the surface, in hot mantle rocks that churn below the planet's thin crust."Most people probably don't recognize that the vast majority of carbon — the backbone of all life — is located in the deep Earth, below the surface — maybe even 90 percent of it," Elizabeth Cottrell, a geologist at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural Histo...
    


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