Looking at the mountains researchers found the extraordinary work they do for the planet and for our survival, do you know what it is?
Before our eyes, they appear to be stationary, lifeless. However, underneath the surface, the tectonic plates move to see them grow. This is the means by which mountains are conceived, tremendous and majestic masses of soil that for millions of years have accompanied the advancement of the Earth.
Looking profoundly, mountains uncover large amounts of carbon stored within them. Some of this material was once in life forms on the seabed or indifferent creatures buried under this soil, which assisted with solidifying the rock.
As tectonic (structural) plates slide, rocks that were once on the base rise up to touch the sky. At that point, all the buried components will be released to the surface through the erosion of the stone, among them: natural carbon.
What are the mountains doing?
At first, specialists believed that mountains retained carbon from the atmosphere. But after It was demonstrated that when water and carbonic acid in the earth cause the erosion of minerals, they discharge organic carbon, which decreases the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. It is then through the disintegration of the mountains that the atmosphere helps to balance itself. Mountains had never been thought to do something so significant for the planet to reduce carbon.
Indeed, even since the climate crisis compels us to pay more attention to the environment is when we find the most significant contributions of nature. As per Professor Susan Trumbore, head of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, there are still numerous gaps in our understanding of the carbon cycle.
We know that it is there, however, we don't know the foggiest idea about the cycles that happen with it in nature. Unfortunately, ecological imbalance complicates the capacity to know exactly how it works because of all the climate changes we are encountering.
So far we have examined the relationship of carbon with humans, however, there is no further investigation on its association with other components of the planet. Nonetheless, thanks to this development we know that it is important to understand, for example, the weathering of mountains.
Today it is known that mountain disintegration is part of the carbon cycle. Moreover, it is firmly connected to the state of the climate which, in turn, is linked to the evolution of plants and creatures. Do you still doubt that the planet is connected?
