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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">"This process also helps
explain the unusually high oceanic phosphorus levels, thought to be
the catalyst for the origin of animal life on
Earth."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Explosive underwater volcanoes were
a major feature of 'Snowball Earth'</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1"> "The question is how higher
trophic level organisms, such as us, will deal with changes in the
services that plankton ecosystems provide."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Meike Vogt. Adrift in an ocean of
change: Rising temperatures and ocean acidification drive changes in
phytoplankton communities.<i> Science</i> 18 DECEMBER 2015 o VOL 350
ISSUE 6267</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">"What can be said with assurance
is that there is a unique and nearly ubiquitous compound, with the
empirical formula<b>
H</b>(2960)<b>O</b>(1480)<b>C</b>(1480)<b>N</b>(16)<b>P</b>(1.8)<b>S</b
> called living matter. Its synthesis, on an oxidized and
uncarboxylated earth, is the most intricate feat of chemical
engineering ever performed - and the most delicate operation that
people have ever tampered with."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Edward S. Deevey, Jr. Mineral
Cycles.<i> Scientific American</i>, September 1970</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">"The energy that sustains
all living systems is solar energy ... It is solar energy that moves
the rabbit, the deer, the whale, the boy on the bicycle outside my
window, my pencil as I write these words."</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">George M. Woodwell. "The
Energy Cycle of the Biosphere."<i> Scientific American</i>,
September 1970.</font></div>
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