Sentences with phrase «year via photosynthesis»

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Instead, ocean life absorbs CO2 during photosynthesis and, while most of the gas escapes within about a year, some of it is transported down into the deep ocean via dead plants, body parts, faeces, and other sinking materials.

Notice that these carbon sources are also fossil, but of much younger age than petroleum, coal or natural gas — they were formed via photosynthesis tens of thousands of years ago, not tens of millions of years.