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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: MacMinn, Christopher W., Juanes, Ruben
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89480
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7370-2332