Sentences with phrase «calcareous matter»

Calcareous matter, if it is to be made malleable, needs to be embedded in a vast mass, and perhaps its reshaping is a process of immense slowness.

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The reason is that Emiliania's dense calcareous platelets function as ballast in aggregated organic matter and accelerate its sinking to the deep ocean.
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