Carbon Dioxide Storage Underground Turns into Rock (IMAGE)

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Carbon Dioxide Storage Underground Turns into Rock

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A core sample from a carbon storage project in Washington state showed that carbon dioxide injected deep underground into basalt rock turned into the carbonate mineral ankerite in less than two years (inset).

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