You are Carbon in Rock

What are you in for? It has taken millions of years but you've literally become "as hard as rock" living below ocean and earth surfaces. It's a tough world down here but you can tough it out.

When organic matter decays over many years, it begins to build up as sediment. Many years later this sediments undergoes chemical reachingts and begins to form limestone. (pending)

Iron: 32.1%, Oxygen: 30.1%, Silicon: 15.1%, Sulfur: 2.9%, Magnesium: 13.9%, Nickel: 1.8%, Calcium: 1.5%, Aluminum: 1.4%, Other: 1.2%

EQUATION (not )SIMPLE

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Rock_(geology)

Calcium Carbonate, Calcite, Calcium Magnesium Carbonate, Azurite, Malachite

Go through the process of HUMAN INTERVENTION. After millions of years of sub-oceanic-floor movement, seafloor carbon from fossilized shells and skeletons is forced deep into the earth's core where it is heated up and eventually melts. The carbon ___[becomes fossil fuel]____. The fuel is then drilled, mined, or fracked, then processed into combustible fuel. When burned, this 'fossil' fuel creates the energy to run your microwave, move your car, or heat your home. But when the fuel is burned, all the carbon that was stored in the rock is released into the atmosphere.

After millions of years of sediment build up, pressure, and tectonic movement, you must be feeling cramped. You'll float free up here with us. Hitch a ride on the petroleum express and drift into the ATMOSPHERE!

The process by which [?????] are converted to energy.

2C₈H₁₈+25O₂ = 16CO₂ + 18H₂O

Fuel + Oxygen = Water + Carbon Dioxide + Heat

Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Combustion

Just WAIT AROUND! Carbon stays in rock, oil, minerals and salts for millions and millions of year. Without human intervention, the carbon in these forms re-can enter the carbon cycle violently through volcanic eruptions or more gradually through CO₂ rich vents and hot springs. Human intervention is a fast track to the atmosphere - geologically speaking. If you want to take your time, stay down here in the rock.

Hey, where do you think you're going? Do you think you're better than the rest of us? Stay around awhile. What else do you have to do for the next million years? Stick around, stay as ROCK.