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Coordinator |
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
Project website | https://roc-co2.weebly.com/ |
Total cost | 1˙499˙696 € |
EC max contribution | 1˙499˙696 € (100%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
Code Call | ERC-2015-STG |
Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
Starting year | 2016 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2016-03-01 to 2021-11-30 |
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1 | UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM | UK (DURHAM) | coordinator | 1˙499˙696.00 |
The global carbon cycle controls Earth’s climate by the emission and drawdown of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. One of the major sources of CO2 is thought to be the oxidation of organic carbon contained in rocks during chemical weathering. Since the industrial revolution, this flux has been accelerated by burning fossil fuels. However, the natural rates of CO2 emission by rock-derived organic carbon oxidation are very poorly constrained – the only major CO2 source that has not been properly quantified – and the dominant controls on this flux remain unclear. The CO2 release is likely to be ~100 TgC/yr, similar to degassing from volcanoes. Without knowing the rate of CO2 emission and the controls on this flux, it is not possible to fully understand the evolution of atmospheric CO2 and global climate over geological timescales, nor to project future changes over hundreds to thousands of years. To address this deficit and quantify a major geological CO2 source, the proposal will: 1) Assess which factors govern rock-derived organic carbon oxidation. 2) Determine how environmental changes impact oxidation rates and CO2 release. 3) Quantify the global CO2 emissions by rock-derived organic carbon oxidation during chemical weathering, and assess how they may have varied both over Earth history and via anthropogenic change. By quantifying a major CO2 emission for the first time, this project will provide a step change in our understanding of the geological, as opposed to the anthropogenically-modified, carbon cycle. Measurement of rock-derived organic carbon oxidation will require a new approach, harnessing state-of-the-art geochemical proxies carried by rivers (rhenium). Data from river catchments spanning large gradients in the likely environmental controls (erosion, temperature), will elucidate the main factors governing this process, and enable construction of a data-driven numerical model to provide the first quantification of CO2 emissions by this process.
year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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2017 |
Robert G. Hilton Climate regulates the erosional carbon export from the terrestrial biosphere published pages: 118-132, ISSN: 0169-555X, DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.03.028 |
Geomorphology 277 | 2020-02-12 |
2017 |
Kate Horan, Robert G. Hilton, David Selby, Chris J. Ottley, Darren R. Gröcke, Murray Hicks, Kevin W. Burton Mountain glaciation drives rapid oxidation of rock-bound organic carbon published pages: e1701107, ISSN: 2375-2548, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701107 |
Science Advances 3/10 | 2020-02-12 |
2017 |
K. E. Clark, R. G. Hilton, A. J. West, A. Robles Caceres, D. R. Gröcke, T. R. Marthews, R. I. Ferguson, G. P. Asner, M. New, Y. Malhi Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its effects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance published pages: 449-469, ISSN: 2169-8953, DOI: 10.1002/2016JG003615 |
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122/3 | 2020-02-12 |
2019 |
Jin Wang, Robert G. Hilton, Zhangdong Jin, Fei Zhang, Alexander L. Densmore, Darren R. Gröcke, Xiaomei Xu, Gen Li, A. Joshua West The isotopic composition and fluxes of particulate organic carbon exported from the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau published pages: 1-15, ISSN: 0016-7037, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.02.031 |
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 252 | 2020-02-12 |
2018 |
Guillaume Soulet, Robert G. Hilton, Mark H. Garnett, Mathieu Dellinger, Thomas Croissant, Mateja OgriÄ, Sébastien Klotz Technical note: In situ measurement of flux and isotopic composition of CO<sub>2</sub> released during oxidative weathering of sedimentary rocks published pages: 4087-4102, ISSN: 1726-4189, DOI: 10.5194/bg-15-4087-2018 |
Biogeosciences 15/13 | 2020-02-12 |
2018 |
Jordon D. Hemingway, Robert G. Hilton, Niels Hovius, Timothy I. Eglinton, Negar Haghipour, Lukas Wacker, Meng-Chiang Chen, Valier V. Galy Microbial oxidation of lithospheric organic carbon in rapidly eroding tropical mountain soils published pages: 209-212, ISSN: 0036-8075, DOI: 10.1126/science.aao6463 |
Science 360/6385 | 2020-02-12 |
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