Abstract
One of the biggest environmental challenges today is to treat land that is contaminated by toxic elements from industrial activity, elements like arsenic, antimony and tungsten.
But these same elements can be brought to the Earth’s surface by natural processes such as the bubbling up of hot springs. So it is valuable to understand how they were dealt with by the environment before humans came along. A site in Aberdeenshire in Scotland which is famous for early fossil life preserved by hot springs, shows us how it could have happened.
But these same elements can be brought to the Earth’s surface by natural processes such as the bubbling up of hot springs. So it is valuable to understand how they were dealt with by the environment before humans came along. A site in Aberdeenshire in Scotland which is famous for early fossil life preserved by hot springs, shows us how it could have happened.
| Original language | English |
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| Specialist publication | The Conversation |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Feb 2023 |
Bibliographical note
John Parnell receives funding from NERC.Keywords
- New Zealand
- lithium
- Iceland
- fungi
- Yellowstone National Park
- silica
- land contamination
- fossil plants
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