As a non-scientific layman, I’m geniunely curious.. how can we deduce what the pH rate of change of the ocean was 250 million years ago?
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Only way I know is ice cores. But I doubt the precision claimed. There may be other means they do in tandem but I don’t know them specifically.
They use fossilized plankton who’s shells contain minerals which they can determine the acidity that the animal existed within. I admit I don’t know the state of the art of this but this allows them to go deep into the past when the oceans covered much of the earth.