This concept was introduced to the teachings of a great scientist of the biosphere Vernadsky.Nutrients Vernadsky - "substance produced by life, with the most powerful potential energy."It was about the bitumen, oil, limestone, coal, etc.
Simply put, organic particles and nutrients there.Examples - hair, teeth, discarded antlers dropped bird feathers, leaves, fruits and pollen, bark of trees or fallen trees, animal excrement.It is nutrient pearls, eggshells, bile (kidney) stones, milk, nectar, web, silk.The list is endless.
non-biogenic substance can also be formed by living organisms, but it is, in contrast to the nutrient is extremely unstable in the biosphere as vigorously processed by other living organisms.
especially characteristic process for organic compounds.Only a tiny part of the non-biogenic substances become fossils, passing in polibiogennye substance.Sedimentary rocks of our planet were formed in the past geological epochs.By polibiogennym substances in sediments can be, for example, to carry detritus (vegetable) residues organisms (we call them mummified) coprolites, amber, mikrobiogennye minerals (iron hydroxides, sulfides, carbonates, etc.).
Rocks Earth created, mainly by living organisms.Those carbonate rocks (dolomite, limestone, chalk) were the result of activity of planktonic and benthic film inland waters and oceans.
Koprolitovye limestone also referred to as biogenic.This is also the rock in which the raw material for forming steel feces mud-eaters, have revised the lime sludge.
Species siliceous (quartz, opal, chalcedony), composed mainly of skeletal remains of "silicon" organisms - diatoms (diatoms), radiolarians, sponges, silikoflagellat.
But Fuels (caustobioliths) - sedimentary rocks and are characterized by high concentrations of nutrients under consideration.Caustobiolites formed under the influence of certain energy functions of various organisms.
particularly intensive organic non-biogenic substances accumulate in parts of lakes and marshes, and in the biosphere today.For example, in our country about 60% of the peat reserves of the world's total.And this is due to a specific geographical location and, of course, climatic conditions.
continental waters and the oceans accumulate remains of plankton and benthic organisms free-floating, sapropel (silt deposits in fresh water), animal excrement.Incidentally, part of the process can be observed even at home aquariums.
Coal, in turn, is formed from peat, but already ancient.Oil shales are formed from sapropel.Here, an organic substance represented by phytoplankton (remnants).But there are slates "polugoryuchie" - present in their composition remains of zooplankton and zoobenthos.
nutrients has led to the emergence and the "black gold" - oil."Parents" Oil - already mentioned the remains of plankton organisms.
Breed phosphate, manganese and ferruginous - sedimentary, low nutrient concentrations.
Considering phosphorite deposits, more than 90% is located in the bottom sediments of the seas, the origin, as you may guess, organic.The main drive of phosphorus - phytoplankton, which is so often described as the glow of the water at night.But phosphorus sediment on the sea floor - zooplankton feces.
Glandular or manganese rocks form living organisms marshes, lakes, seas, oceans.The concentration of iron and manganese depends upon iron bacteria.
living organisms are created and alleity (including bauxite), salt, clay and clastic rocks.
But "the most powerful potential energy" was created for centuries and millennia, delaying by fractions of a millimeter.We spend this energy on a massive scale.On the prospects need to think right now, because with the pace of the majority stock of fossil completely exhausted by the end of this century ...
