You aren't wrong. All the life sustaining minerals/elements we have in the earths lithosphere are being renewed by volcanism. It is why the plant life was able to exist in the first place.
The midwest has great soil because billions of organisms died millions of years ago in a shallow sea that covered most of the central united states today.
You aren't wrong. All the life sustaining minerals/elements we have in the earths lithosphere are being renewed by volcanism. It is why the plant life was able to exist in the first place.
The midwest has great soil because billions of organisms died millions of years ago in a shallow sea that covered most of the central united states today.