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What? That's not what I said at all. Erosion of mountains should itself be an O2 sink, not a source (although subsequent burial of organic matter as the eroded material reaches the ocean, and fertilization of plankton in the ocean by the material, could be an O2 source).


Sorry if I misunderstood, but you wrote

> Oxygen leaks out when rocks are eroded and weathered..

which is what I reinforced.

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It leaks out of the atmosphere. It is pumped back into the atmosphere by photosynthesis + burial of organic material.

Perhaps not the best metaphor.


I was mistaken. It's a sink for CO2. See the work of Ruddiman and Raymo.




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