Buoyant currents arrested by convective dissolution

When carbon dioxide (CO[subscript 2]) dissolves into water, the density of water increases. This seemingly insubstantial phenomenon has profound implications for geologic carbon sequestration. Here we show, by means of laboratory experiments with analog fluids, that the up-slope migration of a buoya...

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Main Authors: MacMinn, Christopher W. (Contributor), Juanes, Ruben (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2014-09-12T18:48:03Z.
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