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3584-tropical-fish · 1 month ago

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There’s a beautiful world out there of soil formation that not enough people talk about and that I am not knowledgeable enough to discuss in depth but hey did you guys know that some bacteria get their energy straight from breaking down rocks*

*Napieralski et al. 2019, Microbial chemilithotrophy mediates oxidative weathering of granitic bedrock

#this + that soils paper I read once altered my perception of the world and I am not fucking kidding #relatedly did you know that we’re running out of sand. And phosphorus #like I know there’s a lot that’s fucked in the world but we are running out of sand and phosphorus. and humans move more soil than natural #processes do #idfk I’ve decided to start rambling about the things I learn in geos classes because I can be a science communicator if I try #geology #critical zone #<- really funny to me that that was not a suggested tag like I feel like some random-ass fandom would claim it #but of course no one’s critical zone posting but me the first paper was published in 2001 #geos #<- changed my geo posting tag to geos because all my classes have like GEOS[number] codes

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