
Meet the Magnificent Microbes of the Deep Unknown
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The Geochemist's Perspective on Carbon Dioxide
Geochemist: I try to understand what's happening from a geological carbon cycle. How much carbon is coming out of volcanoes? How much is going back into the Earth's interior due to subduction processes and plate tectonic processes? And then that gives you a baseline for understanding what's happening with human emissions. We're not necessarily studying how these microbes could be used to sequester the carbon we have or just making that first order link between the natural geological carbon cycle and where that carbon resides.
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