Sentences with phrase «especially aragonite»

«A decline in the saturation state of carbonate minerals, especially aragonite, is a good indicator of a rise in ocean acidification,» said Li - Qing Jiang, an oceanographer with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at the University of Maryland and lead author.

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This is especially true for aragonite, the mineral used by corals and many other marine organisms to grow their skeletons.

Ocean acidification will add further pressure on cold - water corals, especially those made of aragonite.

Numerous peer - reviewed publications describe evidence that ocean temperatures are rising and ocean chemistry, especially pH, is changing.5 New observational data from buoys and ships document increasing acidity and aragonite under - saturation (that is, the tendency of calcite and aragonite in shells to dissolve) in Alaskan coastal waters.