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Keep concentrating! Settle in for the long run. Free yourself from all worldly desires. Become one with ROCK.
Go through the process of ROCK FORMATION.
Changes keep happening even after sediments deposit on the bottom of the ocean. The weight of the water above puts extreme pressure on the layers that have formed from old shells and the remains of ocean plants and animals. The sediment is compacted and slowly become solid rock. Fluids are pushed out and the minerals left behind form a cement that holds the sediment together.
BEGIN AS: Sedimentary Organic Matter. BECOME: Sedimentary Rock.
Lithification is the name for the process by which sediments under pressure slowly become solid rock.
Diagenesis is the term for any process that sediments undergo after deposition.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Diagenesis#Lithification
You are Carbon in Sediment
Here, at the cold dark bottom, under mountains of water, it's easy to be alone with our thoughts. Seems we've been here forever ... but, we remember we’re part of a larger cycle.
Limestone is the biggest reservoir for ocean carbon. It is made by the accumulation of carbonate in sinking shells, coral and phytoplankton skeletons. Carbon dissolved in the ocean can be used to make shells of mollusks, like oysters, forming calcium carbonate. Shells break up as they fall to the ocean floor and build up into sedimentary rock formations such as limestone, dolomite and chalk. Limestone can be used by humans to make cement, which releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The ocean's mechanisms for depositing carbon in deep sediments is known as the biological pump.
Learn much more with Wikipedia: Sediment, Biological_pump
