Clay minerals are a major constituent of the Earth's surface and are mainly found in the sediments of lakes, rivers and ...

A Dartmouth-led study proposes a new method for recruiting trillions of microscopic sea creatures called zooplankton in the ...

The researchers investigated the desiccation process in clay, a critical material in soil and paint formulations, and ...

Applied Clay Science, 201 : 105923 - 105923. Schulz BP, Vickers ML, Huggett J, Madsen H, Heilmann-Clausen C, Friis H, Suess E (2020) Palaeogene glendonites from Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological ...

In lab experiments, the researchers found clay dust captured as much as 50% of organic carbon particulates before they could oxidize into carbon dioxide. This video show that the sticky heavy flocs of ...

The researchers' method would spray clay dust on large blooms of microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton, which can cover hundreds of square miles and remove 150 billion tons of carbon dioxide ...

In a new study, scientists propose an unconventional solution to combating climate change: tiny poop from microscopic marine ...

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