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Calcium enters the biosphere through dust or organisms and cycles through the Earth. It is found in rocks and makes up around 3.4% of the Earth's crust. Calcium dissolves from rocks through weathering and is consumed by aquatic organisms, accumulating in shells and skeletons on the ocean floor. Eventually, tectonic plate movements can bring calcium carbonate deposits near the surface as limestone or marble, returning calcium to land.

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Aqua

Calcium enters the biosphere through dust or organisms and cycles through the Earth. It is found in rocks and makes up around 3.4% of the Earth's crust. Calcium dissolves from rocks through weathering and is consumed by aquatic organisms, accumulating in shells and skeletons on the ocean floor. Eventually, tectonic plate movements can bring calcium carbonate deposits near the surface as limestone or marble, returning calcium to land.

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Calcium Cycle

Calcium enters from biosphere in dust or from organisms. Like


phosphorous, there is no gaseous state so it does not stay in the
atmosphere. When animals die, the calcium in their bodies are
decomposed and go into soil.

In the earth crust calcium makes up about 3.4% of the mass, exceeded
by iron - 4.7%, aluminum - 7.5%, silicon -25.8 and oxygen 49.5%.
Calcium, one of the elements of the original crust of earth, is today
found in igneous rocks as calcium silicate and in sedimentary rocks
and metamorphic rocks as calcium carbonates.
The process involve in weathering rocks, especially where some acids
is present, as carbon dioxide dissolved in water or from growing
lichens, are able to free some calcium from its sequestered location
and send it on its way as a cations attracted to a water molecules
through run offs.
Now, aquatic resources, aquatic plant, phytoplankton will consume the
calcium present in the water in the form of calcium ions.
As the organisms die their hard or mineralized parts, shell, fall to the
ocean floor and accumulate and dissolve. Shells and such which fall to
the bottom of the deep part of the ocean are most often re-dissolved
because the deeper waters can hold more CO2.
How does calcium get back on the land after it has done its time in the
ocean?
Obviously some is brought back as birds, animals, and man harvest seafoods, especially shellfish and eat it on land.
The majority of calcium however takes a different route back to the land.
It takes a ride on a major geologic process. The movements of crustal
plate and continental land masses with various up thrust has brought
many of this accumulated CaCO3 deposits to or near the surface as
limestone or marble.

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