Carbon is incorporated into the skeletons of corals and other marine organisms through the process of _____________. The CaCO3 making up these skeletons, in turn, becomes a major component of sedimentary rocks after these organisms die

A. chemical weathering.
B. subduction.
C. biomineralization.
D. inorganic mineralization.
E. bacterial oxidation.


C

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