What factor accounts for the slow return of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
a. geological uplift
b. burial of calcium carbonate shells and skeletons in ocean sediments
c. increase of solubility with depth
d. photosynthesis by surface organisms
e. sediment dissolution
b
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