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How ice-age sea-level falls may have turned seafloor volcanoes into ocean fertilizer

Ice-age sea-level declines may have turned seafloor volcanoes into natural iron fertilizer for plankton, potentially enhancing ocean carbon storage, Boston College researchers report in the journal Nature Geoscience.

How ice-age sea-level falls may have turned seafloor volcanoes into ocean fertilizer
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Ice-age sea-level declines may have turned seafloor volcanoes into natural iron fertilizer for plankton, potentially enhancing ocean carbon storage, Boston College researchers report in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Originally published at Phys.org

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