Carbon dioxide (chemical formula <span>CO2</span>) is a colorless and odorless gas that is vital to life on Earth. This naturally occurring chemical compound is made up of a carbon atom contently double bonded to two oxygen atoms. Carbon dioxide exists in Earth's atmosphere as a trace gas at a concentration of about 0.04 percent (400 ppm) by volume.Natural sources include volcanoes, hot springs and geysers, and it is freed from carbonate rocks by dissolution in water and acids. Because carbon dioxide is soluble in water, it occurs naturally in groundwater, rivers and lakes, in ice caps and glaciers and also in seawater. It is present in deposits of petroleum and natural gas.<span />
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2. DNA is important to carry genes or genetic materials of the parents
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a. Oligocene b. Eocenec. Miocene<span>d. Pleistocene
</span>Option b is correct. This relates to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) which occured around 56 million years ago and was similar to modern-day climate change. Warming of more than 5 degrees Celcius occured over<span> 15-20 thousand years because of input of more than 2000 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere. The PETM resulted in mass deep ocean extinctions and mass terrestrial and shallow ocean diversification.</span>
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For their research, the team analysed a piece of rock melt, called komatiite -- named after the type occurrence in the Komati river near Barberton in Mpumalanga -- that are the leftovers from the hottest magma ever produced in the first quarter of Earth's existence (the Archaean). While most of the komatiites were obscured by later alteration and exposure to the atmosphere, small droplets of the molten rock were preserved in a mineral called olivine. This allowed the team to study a perfectly preserved piece of ancient lava.
Explanation:
We examined a piece of melt that was 10 microns (0.01mm) in diameter, and analysed its chemical indicators such as H2O content, chlorine and deuterium/hydrogen ratio, and found that Earth's recycling process started about 600 million years earlier than originally thought," says Wilson. "We found that seawater was transported deep into the mantle and then re-emerged through volcanic plumes from the core-mantle boundary."
The research allows insight into the first stages of plate tectonics and the start of stable continental crust.
What is exciting is that this discovery comes at the 50th anniversary of the discovery of komatiites in the Barberton Mountain Land by Wits Professors, the brothers Morris and Richard Viljoen," says Wilson.