Sentences with phrase «calcium carbonate minerals aragonite»

This acidification occurs in a region with a naturally low carbonate ion concentration, and studies suggest that the surface of the Southern Ocean will become undersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate minerals aragonite and calcite by the end of the century.

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Another important element affecting calcification rates of corals is the calcium carbonate saturation state of the mineral aragonite (Cohen et al., 2009; Gattuso et al., 1998; Marshall & Clode, 2002).

While nearly all corals, shells, algae and the like are formed of calcium carbonate CaCo, most are in the form of the mineral aragonite, which is stable in the marine environment.

The material that makes up pteropod shells is aragonite, a common mineral form of calcium carbonate, which is also secreted by other marine organisms to form external skeletal material.