Sentences with phrase «carbonate skeletons eventually»
Sea creatures with calcium carbonate skeletons eventually die and some of mineral matter in their skeletons is buried in the sea bed.
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The researchers also observed evidence that the unstable precursors eventually crystallized into aragonite, the stable form of calcium carbonate that makes up mature coral skeletons.
Eventually there is so little carbonate that shells or skeletons don't form properly or can't form at all.