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Portal to the past: Geologist identifies metamorphic rock as a crucial feature of the ancient Earth's carbon cycle
When Earth's crust heats and pressurizes carbonate-silicate rocks, the metamorphic process releases carbon dioxide, warming the planet. Stewart and Penman found that metamorphic carbon dioxide off ...
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What is Silicon? Computing's Most Important Element, Explained
Silicate rock makes up the Earth's crust and ... and it's also thought to be essential to life on Earth. Like the carbon cycle and water cycle, plate tectonics are part of the biogeochemical ...