Document Type
Forum Theme 1
Abstract
When I look at the limestone bedrock of Iowa, as I did just the other day with my daughter (figure 2—[credit: Aaron Spurr, Quarry October 2, 2016]), I see long-term carbon storage. I do not mean a place to sequester modern atmospheric CO2 into the subsurface. Rather, limestones in Iowa and around the world represent carbon that was removed from the atmosphere through geologic processes and stored in these carbonate rocks. Carbon storage in rocks such as limestone and fossil fuels are responsible for the large scale changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations throughout Earth’s history.
Publication Date
2016-2017
Journal Title
UNIversitas
Volume
12
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
3
Copyright
©2017 Alexa Sedlacek
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Sedlacek, Alexa
(2017)
"Weathering in Iowa: Not What You May Think,"
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity: Vol. 12:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/universitas/vol12/iss1/4
