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Silica cycling over geologic time

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The Earth's long-term silica cycle is intimately linked to weathering rates and biogenic uptake. Changes in weathering rates and the retention of silica on land have altered silica availability in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years.

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Figure 1: Silica cycling through time.

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  1. Daniel J. Conley is at the Department of Geology, Lund University, SE-222 24 Lund, Sweden,

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  2. Joanna C. Carey is at the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA,

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Conley, D., Carey, J. Silica cycling over geologic time. Nature Geosci 8, 431–432 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2454

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