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The miracle of marine snow

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Marine snow is the organic debris that floats slowly from the surface, down into the ocean's deepest depths. It looks tiny and unimportant, but without it we wouldn't have any life in the deep sea at all.

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At what rate does uneaten marine snow build up on the ocean floor?

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1 meter every 100,000 years.

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6 meters every million years.

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10 meters every 500,000 years.

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12 meters every two million years.

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