The amount of carbon stored in the deep ocean varied over glacial–interglacial cycles. Southern Ocean sediments from the past 360,000 years show that carbon storage also fluctuated within glacial periods, in concert with the fertilization of the Southern Ocean by wind-borne dust.
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Kwon, E., Galbraith, E. When the dust settles. Nature Geosci 6, 423–424 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1838
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