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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 ...
The researchers concentrated on a type of surface clay mineral called "smectite," which is very efficient at trapping carbon. Just one grain of smectite is composed of many folds in which carbon ...
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.