Privileged Planet: Geologic carbon cycle (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, March 20, 2014, 16:56 (3683 days ago) @ David Turell

Described in "Rare Earth". Now more proof:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140319143904.htm-"Like many other large mountain ranges, such as the great Himalayas, the Andes began to form during the Cenozoic period, which began about 60 million years ago and happened to coincide with a major perturbation in the cycling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Using marine records of the long-term carbon cycle, Torres, West, and Li reconstructed the balance between CO2 release and uptake caused by the uplift of large mountain ranges and found that the release of CO2 release by rock weathering may have played a large, but thus far unrecognized, role in regulating the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last roughly 60 million years."