Perhaps more to the point,temperate zone serpentinization and tropical weathering of olivine rich rocks like basalts and dunites is proceeding constantly over large inland areas, and whereever such rocks are eroded , comminution in rivers and streams gives rise to olivine particles even smaller than those you have discussed .
On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 2:28:29 PM UTC-4, andrewjlockley wrote: > > Hi > > The proposal for olivine weathering on beaches seems to pass a common > sense test. > > However, there's been a lack of detailed discussion about the occurrence > and function of natural olivine beaches, as far as I'm aware. > > There are a lot of beaches in the world. Olivine is pretty common. How > much of a sink is natural beach chemical and mechanical weathering of > olivine? > > It should be easy to find at least one location where there's massive > quantities of olivine sand, and take detailed measurements on the carbon > sink. > > I know there's at least one such beach in the literature, but I can't > recall discussions of others, nor detailed quantitative research on erosion > and sequestration rates at this site > > Can someone enlighten me as to why this has seemingly been overlooked for > detailed study? > > A > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
