The lysocline is the depth in the ocean below which the rate of dissolution of [calcite] increases dramatically. Shallow marine waters are generally supersaturated in calcite, CaCO3, so as marine organisms (which often have shells made of calcite or its polymorph, aragonite) die, they will tend to fall downwards without dissolving. As depth and pr...
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the depth of the ocean at which the solubility of calcium carbonate increases substantially.
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