You are Carbon in Sediment

Life was good on the ocean floor, until you got buried by that younger generation of dead fishbones and kelp forests, again, and again, and again. The pressure from their dead carcasses is putting you in a tight spot

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Sediment

Choose ROCK FORMATION. At the bottom of the ocean, the weight of the water puts extreme pressure on the sediment that has formed from old shells and skeletons of ocean plants and animals. Under pressure, fluids are pushed out and the minerals left behind form a cement that holds the sediment together. Carbon is stored in this newly formed rock.

There is no way out from here. You’re locked up for life. Might as well harden up and become a bad body building brick of mountain material. Maybe one day you can break out of this joint and be a peaking crest of achievement. i.e. Mt. Everest.

Lithification/diagenesis

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