In the natural cycle, weathering releases phosphorus from rocks into soil. Taken up by plants, it enters the food chain and makes its way through every living being.

Evidence of intense phosphorus weathering following 'snowball Earth' glaciations raises a further possibility — that this revved-up nutrient cycle drove conditions for the explosion of animal life.

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

Phosphorus is found organically in the form of the phosphate ion (PO43-). Phosphorus is added to soil and water by runoff resulting from the weathering of rocks that contain phosphates.

Phosphorus released from soils via chemical weathering (referred to as P weathering) plays a critical role in the global cycling of key elements and influences the size of the Earth's biosphere.

Two important products of weathering include available phosphorus and molybdenum. Phosphorus boosts plant growth, and molybdenum helps plants assimilate nitrogen.

With enhanced weathering, ... that redirects the CO 2 from the atmosphere to the water cycle, ... Basalt contains both calcium and magnesium as well as phosphorus and minor nutrients that are ...

New research reveals how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. The research reveals the effects that the first land plants had on the climate during ...

This study shows that they extracted minerals such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and iron from rocks in order to grow. In so doing, they caused chemical weathering of the Earth’s surface.