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← GeographyWhich risk increases when CO2 levels rise within karst cave systems?
A)Enhanced speleothem development rate
B)Accelerated dissolution of surrounding rock✓
C)Increased bat populations disturbance
D)Stabilization of cave ecosystem balance
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Increased CO2 concentrations enhance carbonic acid formation and accelerate chemical weathering; dissolution occurs because carbonate bedrock reacts with carbonic acid via *carbonation*, therefore the risk increases, rather than reduced rock dissolution rates that reduced CO2 levels promote.
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