That is why this process explains the stratigraphic evidence of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in seafloor sediment: a band of clay between layers of chalk.
Experiments seeking to replicate this process have shown deformation in coccolithophores. That is why this process explains the stratigraphic evidence of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in seafloor sediment: a band of clay between layers of chalk. This process would be worsened by such geo-engineering proposals as induced volcanic eruptions. This process raises the lysocline, or, alternatively, it decreases the saturation state of calcium carbonate in the upper levels of the ocean, which prevents pteropods and corals from forming their characteristic structures. Thus, current research forecasts an imminent (*) "age of slime" as a result of this process, since the partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing at a much greater rate than deep-ocean circulation can counter-act. For 10 points, what is this reef-threatening process in which the pH of the ocean decreases?
Experiments seeking to replicate this process have shown deformation in coccolithophores.
ocean acidification (accept word forms)