![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106181802im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Study: Typhoons Bury Tons of Carbon in the Oceans
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July 23, 2008
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A single typhoon in Taiwan buries as much carbon in the ocean--in the form of sediment--as all the other rains in that country all year long combined. That's the finding of an Ohio State University study published in a recent issue of the journal Geology.
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