Does this increase the number of silicaceous diatoms which can outcompete the calciferous types, thereby reducing the biological pull-down?. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #10 « Climate Audit] Reference
As I understand it, increasing acidification of the oceans is destroying lifeforms whose shells are calciferous; crustaceans and the like, in other words. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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 scaffolding, and finally they built machines. From Wordnik.com. [Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)] Reference
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 skeletons, a few feet below the surface of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
The streams that descend from Mount Dersa cut into the permeable calciferous rock formations on which the city stands. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
They are composed chiefly of greenish-colored fissile sandstones and calciferous grits, in which we meet a few fossils, very imperfectly preserved. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
To shield itself from the degenerating tissue of the fetal foreign body the woman's body will encase the fetus and / or its covering membranes in a calciferous substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Well-Timed Period] Reference
The sequestration of atmospheric carbon has made the oceans more acidic now than they’ve been in 650,000 years, and by the end of the century scientists predict that they could be more acidic than they have been in millions of years, leading to the death of creatures that secrete skeletal structures, like coral, shellfish, and calciferous phytoplankton. From Wordnik.com. [Kook] Reference
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