Hydrogen at the Unconformity

Water–rock reaction of drill core as the energy budget of a buried habitat

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions reacts crushed drill core from twelve intervals across one basement–cover unconformity with anoxic synthetic formation water for 90 days at 55 °C and 100 °C, and measures the hydrogen each interval releases. Yield peaks neither in the cover nor in the fresh metagabbro but in the lower palaeoregolith a few metres beneath the contact, which out-yields fresh basement about four to one at the cooler temperature.

@misc{slop_aw86e0,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Vigdis Emenike and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Hydrogen at the Unconformity: Water–rock reaction of drill core as the energy budget of a buried habitat},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.aw86e0},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-much-hydrogen-aw86e0/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}