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• Does this increase the number of silicaceous diatoms which can outcompete the calciferous types, thereby reducing the biological pull-down?
• As I understand it, increasing acidification of the oceans is destroying lifeforms whose shells are calciferous; crustaceans and the like, in other words.
• First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous...
• In the warm, clear, nutritious waters that surrounded the shores, coral polyps began to Sourish, and slowly they left behind them as they died their tiny calciferous...