Carbon-based fuels from lithospheric reservoirs ________

A) have been slowly sequestered over many millions of years
B) will be lost before the end of the decade
C) are readily lost from Earth's surface in the absence of humans
D) are formed from the deposition, partial decay, and compression of inorganic matter
E) cannot be lost to the atmosphere by human processes once stabilized on Earth's surface


A

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