Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Carbon and Energy Security
- Carbon Cycle Maintains Planetary Health
- Most global carbon is locked in
- Carbon stores
- terrestrial
- ocean
- Atmosphere
- Most of earth's carbon is Geological
- Sedimentary carbonate rocks formed in oceans
- limestone
- Biologically derived carbon
- Shale
- Coal
- Chemical weathering
- removes carbonate from silicate rocks
- Carbonate rocks formed on ocean beds
- Carbon released into atmosphere through
- Outgassing at oceanic ridges
- hotspot volcanoes
- subduction zones
- Biological Processes sequester carbon on land and oceans
- Oceanic Pumps
- Biological Pump
- Physical Pump
- Carbonate Pump
- Terrestrial primary producers
- Photosynthesis