Discovery of “Dark Oxygen” Produced at the Sea Floor Where No Light Can Reach! GEO GIRL

Don't tell your astronomer friends. Now if we find an extrasolar planet with oxygen we can't definitively say there's life because rocks are just too cool.

We are only just beginning to learn about this biome, it would be a shame to lose it for the sake of making some cars. Thank you for being upfront and saying it will likely be mined, you are just being realistic about the situation and I like to see it

Extremely interesting, it adds another consideration for OoL researchers. I'll be looking forward to any updated content you might create.

With all the A.I. content it is hard to find good new science channels on. Keep up the good work.

Thank you Geo Girl for the informative video!

I participated in Leg 86 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project in the far northwest Pacific. We found what we called "manganese nodules" in the core catchers of the first core barrel of every hole we drilled. Who knew? Some of these deposits form extensive blankets, possibly acres, of nodules in contact with each other. Good point about anaerobic early life but perhaps the earliest oxygen-users evolved in some of these chemical enriched O2-rich zones, next door to their anaerobic ancestors, and then they migrated to shallower environments.

Yes! Been waiting for this explainer ever since the news dropped! Thanks for the clear explanation.

These rocks may be our planet's defibrillator.

This discovery is fascinating! If they they tend to link together in series to achieve high enough voltage to perform electrolysis, I wonder what maximum voltages are being produced over certain areas. Nature is brilliant! On a less excited note, isn't it just like humans to find the things keeping our planet healthy and just destroy them immediately? smdh.

I love that you record with zoom! It's like a recorded conference presentation!

I can not stress enough that humankind has done quite enough damage. LEAVE THE SEA FLOOR ALONE!!! Have we not seen the devastation of trawling? The planet is not infinitely extractable, people!

Geo Girl is one of my all-time favorite YouTube hosts. Always interesting and informative, and I always learn something new!

Super interesting video. They are kind of like the ultimate OLD growth forest

This channel is gonna blow up.

I'd be interested to know (only after a lot more research, I assume) how much of Earth's oxygen is made this way, like what proportion of yearly oxygen production this contributes. Great topic and video.

Imagine if this released 3-5 months before finishing your dissertation? Advisor: Let's add a whole new section! You: ...yay...I...love science... *tries to remember

The more we learn about geobatteries, the more we learn that we definitely should NOT be mining the sea floor.

excellent video Dr geo girl thank you

Very cool! So grateful to have stumbled upon your content—a glistening example of why social media ain’t all bad. Instant sub—thank you for your work!

My question is: What keeps the process going? It's easy enough to create a chemical battery. The first "voltaic piles" were literally piles of metal disks interleaved with paper soaked in sulfuric acid. The battery produces voltage until it has consumed the chemical energy inside it, and then it stops. The fact that the nodules are still electrolyzing water after all this time indicates that either (a) something is applying voltage to the nodules to recharge them, or (b) metals are accreting onto the nodules fast enough to maintain the supply of electrochemical energy.