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While these concretions aren’t the remnants of a lost city, we do know that studying how they formed can give us insights into ocean currents, climate change, and could even give us insights into making cleaner, greener concrete. This video was inspired by Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions, a new book by Ellen Prager and Dave Jones. If you’d like to check it out, head to bookshop.org/lists/scishow-recommended-reading. Made in partnership with The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Sources:
maya-gaia.angelfire.com/shinn_mystique_beachrock.pdf
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825207000955
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10706-013-9712-9
weforum.org/stories/2024/09/cement-production-sustainable-concrete-co2-emissions
mdpi.com/2077-1312/10/1/87
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While these concretions aren’t the remnants of a lost city, we do know that studying how they formed can give us insights into ocean currents, climate change, and could even give us insights into making cleaner, greener concrete. This video was inspired by Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions, a new book by Ellen Prager and Dave Jones. If you’d like to check it out, head to bookshop.org/lists/scishow-recommended-reading. Made in partnership with The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Sources:
maya-gaia.angelfire.com/shinn_mystique_beachrock.pdf
sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825207000955
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10706-013-9712-9
weforum.org/stories/2024/09/cement-production-sustainable-concrete-co2-emissions
mdpi.com/2077-1312/10/1/87
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