This is a series of exercises to introduce the role of sediments and sedimentary rocks in the global carbon cycle and the use of stable carbon isotopes to reconstruct ancient sedimentary environments.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
9-12
Lesson Area
Soils and Climate
Lesson Type
Activity
Lesson Keywords
Sediments
organic carbon
Carbon Cycle

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
9-12 ESS2.A: Earth materials and systems

Feedback effects exist within and among Earth's systems.
9-12 ESS2.E: Biogeology

The biosphere and Earth's other systems have many interconnections that cause a continual co-evolution of Earth's surface and life on it.