Meanings
- uncountableGeological sequestration (of any material), causing it to be sequestered underground.
- especiallyuncountableRemoval and storage of carbon from the atmosphere by transfer into underground geological formations.
Perennial hopes for mitigation of climate change severity have often looked to geosequestration, which complements carbon emission reductions although it cannot wholly substitute for them under any realistically projected arc of development.
Origin
From geo- + sequestration; also, by surface analysis, geosequester + -ation.
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