MELTING GLACIERS. “When sea level rose (and the first Cambrian sediments were laid down on the continents) it swabbed the decks. Nothing erodes quite like the power of waves, so as the shoreline gradually moved inland to higher elevations it washed away the soil and sediment that had built up while rocks broke down. This “wave-base razor,” as it’s called, cleared out the material that might have otherwise formed sedimentary rocks, and exposed massive areas of “fresh” bedrock. Between the weathering of these fresh surfaces (which weather very rapidly) and the continued breakdown of all the soil and sediment added to the oceans, concentrations of many ions in the seawater rose quickly.”
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