GEOL 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Carbon Cycle, Biological Pump, Css Box Model
6 Nov 2018
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In this lab we will model the ingrowth of the reservoir to steady state, and determine an average residence time by measuring the water level in the column, input flux, and timing the change of that level. We will also look at the long- and short- term carbon cycles, analyze the corresponding reservoirs and build a simple box model for the part of the carbon cycle. Organic carbon: carbon in living organisms, in form of chemical elements that generally contain one or more c-h bonds. Inorganic carbon: carbon in chemical elements that are not associated with living organisms and does not contain carbon-carbon bonds, while typically contain only c-o, c- Oxidized carbon: carbon reacts with oxygen, which tends to gain electrons, forming carbon dioxide or similar molecules. Reduced carbon: carbon reacts with other carbon, hydrogen or nitrogen atoms, which tend to give up one or more electrons, ultimately forming molecules such as methane (ch4) or similar.
