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IF it be assumed, as is now again the fashion, that the nascent earth passed through a liquid stage, it is obvious that "the molten spheroid ... retained, occluded within itself, some large part of the water in the present hydrosphere, as well as much ot the carbon dioxide represented by the present carbonates and carbonaceous deposits"1. Most of the carbon dioxide that has become available as a source of carbon is undoubtedly of volcanic origin, being derived from magma.
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COTTON, C. Volcanic Contributions to the Atmosphere and Ocean. Nature 154, 399–400 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154399b0
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