Deep-ocean floor produces its own 'dark oxygen'
July 22, 2024
July 22, 2024
EVANSTON, Illinois, July 22 -- Northwestern University issued the following news release:
An international team of researchers, including a Northwestern University chemist, has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen 13,000 feet below the surface.
The surprising discovery challenges long-held assumptions that only photosynthetic organisms, such as plants and algae, generate Earth's oxygen. But the new finding shows there might be an . . .
An international team of researchers, including a Northwestern University chemist, has discovered that metallic minerals on the deep-ocean floor produce oxygen 13,000 feet below the surface.
The surprising discovery challenges long-held assumptions that only photosynthetic organisms, such as plants and algae, generate Earth's oxygen. But the new finding shows there might be an . . .