... Cycle 3Processes of the Long-Term Carbon Cycle: OrganicMatter and CarbonateBurial and Weathering40 The organic subcycle of the long-term carbon cycle, where organic matterburial and weathering are ... CO2 and O2, including volcanism, the role of plants in weath-ering, the weathering and burial of organic matter and pyrite, and the weathering of basalt (Berner and Maasch, 1996).30 The Phanerozoic ... to the long-term carbon cycle is that, in order to calculate the removal ofCO2 from the atmosphere via Ca and Mg silicate weathering, it is neces-8 The Phanerozoic Carbon Cycle This is the...