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Clay minerals are an integral part of the global water and nutrient cycles. They indicate past environmental conditions and play an important role in catastrophic events. Clay minerals exist when ...

They showed that smectite on Earth was likely a product of tectonic activity, and that, once exposed at the surface, the clay minerals acted to draw down and store enough carbon dioxide from the ...

Water on Mars could have set off a chain reaction that drew CO2 out of the atmosphere and converted it into methane within clay minerals. Mars wasn't always the cold desert we see today.

They showed that smectite on Earth was likely a product of tectonic activity, and that, once exposed at the surface, the clay minerals acted to draw down and store enough carbon dioxide from the ...