What published papers are there on enhanced rock weathering?

Modified on Fri, 22 Dec, 2023 at 10:21 AM

There are a number of scientific published papers on enhanced rock weathering and it's impact on crops and soil. 


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Agronomy papers


  1. Potential of global croplands and bioenergy crops for climate change mitigation through deployment for enhanced weathering. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0714

  2. Remineralizing soils? The agricultural usage of silicate rock powders: A review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972106054X

  3. Climate change mitigation: potential benefits and pitfalls of enhanced rock weathering in tropical agriculture. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0715


Carbon Removal papers


  1. Potential and costs of carbon dioxide removal by enhanced weathering of rocks. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa9c4/pdf 

  2. Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2448-9 

  3. Enhanced chemical weathering as a geoengineering strategy to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, supply nutrients, and mitigate ocean acidification. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rog.20004 


Geochemical papers


  1. Enhanced Weathering Using Basalt Rock Powder: Carbon Sequestration, Co-benefits and Risks in a Mesocosm Study With Solanum tuberosum. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2022.869456/full 

  2. Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292721001554 

  3. Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15089 


Other important papers


New estimates of the storage permanence and ocean co-benefits of enhanced rock weathering. https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/4/pgad059/7101163 

 

Enhanced Weathering and related element fluxes – a cropland mesocosm approach. https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/103/2020/ 


Assessing ocean alkalinity for carbon sequestration. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016RG000533 

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