Sentences with phrase «as decaying vegetation»

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The precursors of acid rain formation result from both natural sources, such as volcanoes and decaying vegetation, and human - made sources, primarily emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide resulting from fossil fuel combustion.

But the town itself has long since dropped below, as radioactivity decayed and workers removed contaminated soil and vegetation.

As the researchers reported online last month in Environmental Science & Technology, this kind of bacteria thrives in the waterlogged sediments, rich with decaying vegetation, that pile up behind beaver dams.

For the d13C levels of several parts of the carbon cycle see: http://homepage.mac.com/uriarte/carbon13.html There are only two sources of low d13C on earth: fossil fuels and vegetation decay, but as the biosphere is an overall carbon sink, thus specifically a 12C sink, it can't be a 13C sink.

As there is no differentiation in type for the inflows and outflows, also 22 % of the red CO2 is exchanged by natural, colourless CO2, from the deep oceans (we forget for a moment that some of it returns in another season from the ocean surface layer and vegetation decay).

As (C - D) is about 4 GtC / year, the influence is distributed over the sources (only the oceans, as volcanoes and vegetation decay don't react on pressure changes) and sinks (oceans and vegetationAs (C - D) is about 4 GtC / year, the influence is distributed over the sources (only the oceans, as volcanoes and vegetation decay don't react on pressure changes) and sinks (oceans and vegetationas volcanoes and vegetation decay don't react on pressure changes) and sinks (oceans and vegetation).

While all types of plants absorb carbon dioxide, known as CO2, most of them return it to the atmosphere quickly because their vegetation decays, burns or is eaten.