Catchment lithology controls net carbon balance along the Antarctic Peninsula
Songfan He, Xiaowen Zhang, Huanting Hu, Maojun Yan, Huiyuan Yang, Qiyue Gu, Thomas S. Bianchi, Xiaomei Xu, Xingqian Cui · 2026
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Songfan He and colleagues weigh the carbon balance of bays along the Antarctic Peninsula in 2026. Warming is moving old carbon from land to sea, where some is buried and some is lost as gas. Two bays with unlike bedrock were compared with heat based lab tests and isotope models.
The bay cut in soft rock buried ten fold more rock derived carbon than the bay cut in volcanic rock. Across the region, burial of living source carbon likely beats loss of rock carbon. Models suggest burial could rise two to four fold as change goes on. Rock type must enter forecasts of polar carbon storage.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Songfan He, Xiaowen Zhang, Huanting Hu, Maojun Yan, Huiyuan Yang, Qiyue Gu, Thomas S. Bianchi, Xiaomei Xu, Xingqian Cui |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 68176 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |